Umbra.[85] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFFGDDCHH IClose to the best known author Umbra sits | A |
The constant index to old Button's wits | A |
'Who's here ' cries Umbra 'Only Johnson ' 'Oh | B |
Your slave ' and exit but returns with Rowe | C |
'Dear Rowe let's sit and talk of tragedies ' | D |
Ere long Pope enters and to Pope he flies | E |
Then up comes Steele he turns upon his heel | F |
And in a moment fastens upon Steele | F |
But cries as soon 'Dear Dick I must be gone | G |
For if I know his tread here's Addison ' | D |
Says Addison to Steele ''Tis time to go ' | D |
Pope to the closet steps aside with Rowe | C |
Poor Umbra left in this abandon'd pickle | H |
E'en sits him down and writes to honest Tickell | H |
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Fool 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam | I |
Know sense like charity 'begins at home ' | - |
Alexander Pope
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