In Augustinum Dobson'jam Rude Donatum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCAD EFGHEI JKLLJK MHNNMG OPQQOP RSTTRS EQUUEQ

Dear Poet now turned out to grassA
Like him who reigned in BabylonB
Forget the seasons overlaidC
By business and the Board of TradeC
And sing of old world lad and lassA
As in the summers that are goneD
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Back to the golden prime of AnneE
When you ambassador had beenF
And brought o'er sea the King againG
Beatrix Esmond in his trainH
Ah happy bard to hold her fanE
And happy land with such a QueenI
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We live too early or too lateJ
You should have shared the pint of PopeK
And taught well pleased the shining shellL
To murmur of the fair LepelL
And changed the stars of St John's fateJ
To some more happy horoscopeK
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By duchesses with roses crownedM
And fed with chicken and champagneH
Urbane and witty and too waryN
To risk the feud of Lady MaryN
You should have walked the courtly groundM
Of times that cannot come againG
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Bring back these years in verse or proseO
I very much prefer your verseP
As on some Twenty Ninth of MayQ
Restore the splendour and the swayQ
Forget the sins the wars the woesO
The joys alone must you rehearseP
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Forget the dunces there is noneR
So stupid as to snarl at YOUS
So may your years with pen and bookT
Run pleasant as an English brookT
Through meadows floral in the sunR
And shadows fragrant of the dewS
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And thus at ending of your spanE
As all must end the world shall sayQ
His best he gave he left us notU
A line that saints could wish to blotU
For he was blameless though a manE
And though the poet he was gayQ

Andrew Lang



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