A Fit Of Rhyme Against Rhyme Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDEEFGGFHHICCIJJ JKKJLLEMMENNJOPJQQRS TRJJCJJCUUCVVCJJCWWC| Rhyme the rack of finest wits | A |
| That expresseth but by fits | A |
| True conceit | B |
| Spoiling senses of their treasure | C |
| Cozening judgment with a measure | C |
| But false weight | D |
| Wresting words from their true calling | E |
| Propping verse for fear of falling | E |
| To the ground | F |
| Jointing syllabes drowning letters | G |
| Fast'ning vowels as with fetters | G |
| They were bound | F |
| Soon as lazy thou wert known | H |
| All good poetry hence was flown | H |
| And art banish'd | I |
| For a thousand years together | C |
| All Parnassus' green did wither | C |
| And wit vanish'd | I |
| Pegasus did fly away | J |
| At the wells no Muse did stay | J |
| But bewail'd | J |
| So to see the fountain dry | K |
| And Apollo's music die | K |
| All light failed | J |
| Starveling rhymes did fill the stage | L |
| Not a poet in an age | L |
| Worth crowning | E |
| Not a work deserving bays | M |
| Not a line deserving praise | M |
| Pallas frowning | E |
| Greek was free from rhyme's infection | N |
| Happy Greek by this protection | N |
| Was not spoiled | J |
| Whilst the Latin queen of tongues | O |
| Is not yet free from rhyme's wrongs | P |
| But rests foiled | J |
| Scarce the hill again doth flourish | Q |
| Scarce the world a wit doth nourish | Q |
| To restore | R |
| Phbus to his crown again | S |
| And the Muses to their brain | T |
| As before | R |
| Vulgar languages that want | J |
| Words and sweetness and be scant | J |
| Of true measure | C |
| Tyrant rhyme hath so abused | J |
| That they long since have refused | J |
| Other csure | C |
| He that first invented thee | U |
| May his joints tormented be | U |
| Cramp'd forever | C |
| Still may syllabes jar with time | V |
| Still may reason war with rhyme | V |
| Resting never | C |
| May his sense when it would meet | J |
| The cold tumor in his feet | J |
| Grow unsounder | C |
| And his title be long fool | W |
| That in rearing such a school | W |
| Was the founder | C |
Ben Jonson
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