Prologue To Faulkener Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEFGGHIII JJII IIIIKK LLMMNNN| A TRAGEDY BY WILLIAM GODWIN | A |
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| An author who has given you all delight | B |
| Furnished the tale our stage presents to night | B |
| Some of our earliest tears he taught to steal | C |
| Down our young cheeks and forced us first to feel | C |
| To solitary shores whole years confined | D |
| Who has not read how pensive Crusoe pined | D |
| Who now grown old that did not once admire | E |
| His goat his parrot his uncouth attire | F |
| The stick due notched that told each tedious day | G |
| That in the lonely island wore away | G |
| Who has not shuddered where he stands aghast | H |
| At sight of human footsteps in the waste | I |
| Or joyed not when his trembling hands unbind | I |
| Thee Friday gentlest of the savage kind | I |
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| The genius who conceived that magic tale | J |
| Was skilled by native pathos to prevail | J |
| His stories though rough drawn and framed in haste | I |
| Had that which pleased our homely grandsires' taste | I |
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| His was a various pen that freely roved | I |
| Into all subjects was in most approved | I |
| Whate'er the theme his ready Muse obeyed | I |
| Love courtship politics religion trade | I |
| Gifted alike to shine in every sphere | K |
| Novelist historian poet pamphleteer | K |
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| In some blest interval of party strife | L |
| He drew a striking sketch from private life | L |
| Whose moving scenes of intricate distress | M |
| We try to night in a dramatic dress | M |
| A real story of domestic woe | N |
| That asks no aid from music verse or show | N |
| But trusts to truth to Nature and Defoe | N |
Charles Lamb
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