Epistle From Mr. Murray To Dr. Polidori Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Dear Doctor I have read your playA
Which is a good one in its wayA
Purges the eyes and moves the bowelsB
And drenches handkerchiefs like towelsB
With tears that in a flux of griefC
Afford hysterical reliefC
To shatter'd nerves and quicken'd pulsesD
Which your catastrophe convulsesD
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I like your moral and machineryE
Your plot too has such scope for sceneryE
Your dialogue is apt and smartF
The play's concoction full of artF
Your hero raves your heroine criesD
All stab and everybody diesD
In short your tragedy would beE
The very thing to hear and seeE
And for a piece of publicationG
If I decline on this occasionG
It is not that I am not sensibleH
To merits in themselves ostensibleH
But and I grieve to speak it playsD
Are drugs mere drugs sir now a daysD
I had a heavy loss by 'Manual'H
Too lucky if it prove not annualH
And Sotheby with his 'Orestes '-
Which by the by the author's best isD
Has lain so very long on handI
That I despair of all demandI
I've advertised but see my booksD
Or only watch my shopman's looksD
Still Ivan Ina and such lumberJ
My back shop glut my shelves encumberJ
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There's Byron too who once did betterJ
Has sent me folded in a letterJ
A sort of it's no more a dramaK
Than Darnley Ivan or KehamaK
So alter'd since last year his pen isD
I think he's lost his wits at VeniceD
In short sir what with one and t'otherJ
I dare not venture on anotherJ
I write in haste excuse each blunderJ
The coaches through the street so thun derJ
My room's so full we've Gifford hereL
Reading MS with Hookham FrereM
Pronouncing on the nouns and particlesD
Of some of our forthcoming ArticlesD
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The Quarterly Ah sir if youN
Had but the genius to reviewN
A smart critique upon St HelenaK
Or if you only would but tell in aK
Short compass what but to resumeK
As I was saying sir the roomK
The room's so full of wits and bardsD
Crabbes Campbells Crokers Freres and WardsD
And others neither bards nor witsD
My humble tenement admitsD
All persons in the dress of gentO
From Mr Hammond to Dog DentO
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A party dines with me to dayA
All clever men who make their wayA
Crabbe Malcolm Hamilton and ChantreyM
Are all partakers of my pantryM
They're at this moment in discussionG
On poor De Sta l's late dissolutionG
Her book they say was in advanceD
Pray Heaven she tell the truth of FranceD
Thus run our time and tongues awayA
But to return sir to your playA
Sorry sir but I cannot dealH
Unless 'twere acted by O'NeillH
My hands so full my head so busyM
I'm almost dead and always dizzyM
And so with endless truth and hurryM
Dear Doctor I am yoursD
JOHN MURRAYM

George Gordon Byron



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