Sandys Ghost ; A Proper Ballad On The New Ovid's Metamorphosis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGGG HIHI JGKG ILIL MHMH HEHE NINI HIHI GIGI GGGG ONON HGHG NGNG HIHI NINI IGIG PI I| Ye Lords and Commons Men of Wit | A |
| And Pleasure about Town | B |
| Read this ere you translate one Bit | A |
| Of Books of high Renown | B |
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| Beware of Latin Authors all | C |
| Nor think your Verses Sterling | D |
| Though with a Golden Pen you scrawl | C |
| And scribble in a Berlin | E |
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| For not the Desk with silver Nails | F |
| Nor Bureau of Expense | G |
| Nor standish well japann'd avails | G |
| To writing of good Sense | G |
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| Hear how a Ghost in dead of Night | H |
| With saucer Eyes of Fire | I |
| In woeful wise did sore affright | H |
| A Wit and courtly 'Squire | I |
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| Rare Imp and Phoebus hopeful Youth | J |
| Like Puppy tame that uses | G |
| To fetch and carry in his Mouth | K |
| The Works of all the Muses | G |
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| Ah why did he write Poetry | I |
| That hereto was so civil | L |
| And sell his soul for vanity | I |
| To Rhyming and the Devil | L |
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| A Desk he had of curious Work | M |
| With glittering Studs about | H |
| Within the same did Sandys lurk | M |
| Though Ovid lay without | H |
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| Now as he scratch'd to fetch up Thought | H |
| Forth popp'd the Sprite so thin | E |
| And from the Key hole bolted out | H |
| All upright as a Pin | E |
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| With Whiskers Band and Pantaloon | N |
| And Ruff composed most duly | I |
| This 'Squire he dropp'd his Pen full soon | N |
| While as the Light burnt bluely | I |
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| Ho Master Sam quoth Sandys' sprite | H |
| Write on nor let me scare ye | I |
| Forsooth if Rhymes fall in not right | H |
| To Budgell seek or Carey | I |
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| I hear the Beat of Jacob's Drums | G |
| Poor Ovid finds no Quarter | I |
| See first the merry Pembroke comes | G |
| In Haste without his Garter | I |
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| Then Lords and Lordlings 'Squires and Knights | G |
| Wits Witlings Prigs and Peers | G |
| Garth at St James's and at White's | G |
| Beats up for Volunteers | G |
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| What Fenton will not do nor Gay | O |
| Nor Congreve Rowe nor Stanyan | N |
| Tom Burnet or Tom D'Urfey may | O |
| John Dunton Steele or any one | N |
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| If Justice Philips' costive head | H |
| Some frigid Rhymes disburses | G |
| They shall like Persian Tales be read | H |
| And glad both Babes and Nurses | G |
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| Let Warwick's Muse with Ashurst join | N |
| And Ozell's with Lord Hervey's | G |
| Tickell and Addison combine | N |
| And P pe translate with Jervas | G |
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| Landsdowne himself that lively Lord | H |
| Who bows to every Lady | I |
| Shall join with Frowde in one Accord | H |
| And be like Tate and Brady | I |
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| Ye Ladies too draw forth your pen | N |
| I pray where can the hurt lie | I |
| Since you have Brains as well as Men | N |
| As witness Lady Wortley | I |
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| Now Tonson list thy Forces all | I |
| Review them and tell Noses | G |
| For to poor Ovid shall befal | I |
| A strange Metamorphosis | G |
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| A Metamorphosis more strange | P |
| Than all his Books can vapour | I |
| 'To what' quoth 'squire 'shall Ovid change ' | - |
| Quoth Sandys To waste paper | I |
Alexander Pope
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