In Augustinum Dobson'jam Rude Donatum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCAD EFGHEI JKLLJK MHNNMG OPQQOP RSTTRS EQUUEQDear Poet now turned out to grass | A |
Like him who reigned in Babylon | B |
Forget the seasons overlaid | C |
By business and the Board of Trade | C |
And sing of old world lad and lass | A |
As in the summers that are gone | D |
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Back to the golden prime of Anne | E |
When you ambassador had been | F |
And brought o'er sea the King again | G |
Beatrix Esmond in his train | H |
Ah happy bard to hold her fan | E |
And happy land with such a Queen | I |
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We live too early or too late | J |
You should have shared the pint of Pope | K |
And taught well pleased the shining shell | L |
To murmur of the fair Lepel | L |
And changed the stars of St John's fate | J |
To some more happy horoscope | K |
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By duchesses with roses crowned | M |
And fed with chicken and champagne | H |
Urbane and witty and too wary | N |
To risk the feud of Lady Mary | N |
You should have walked the courtly ground | M |
Of times that cannot come again | G |
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Bring back these years in verse or prose | O |
I very much prefer your verse | P |
As on some Twenty Ninth of May | Q |
Restore the splendour and the sway | Q |
Forget the sins the wars the woes | O |
The joys alone must you rehearse | P |
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Forget the dunces there is none | R |
So stupid as to snarl at YOU | S |
So may your years with pen and book | T |
Run pleasant as an English brook | T |
Through meadows floral in the sun | R |
And shadows fragrant of the dew | S |
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And thus at ending of your span | E |
As all must end the world shall say | Q |
His best he gave he left us not | U |
A line that saints could wish to blot | U |
For he was blameless though a man | E |
And though the poet he was gay | Q |
Andrew Lang
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