Epistle From Mr. Murray To Dr. Polidori Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFDDEEGGHHDDHH DIIDDJJ JJKKDDJJJJLMDD NNKKKKDDDDOO AAMMGGDDAAHHMMMDMDear Doctor I have read your play | A |
Which is a good one in its way | A |
Purges the eyes and moves the bowels | B |
And drenches handkerchiefs like towels | B |
With tears that in a flux of grief | C |
Afford hysterical relief | C |
To shatter'd nerves and quicken'd pulses | D |
Which your catastrophe convulses | D |
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I like your moral and machinery | E |
Your plot too has such scope for scenery | E |
Your dialogue is apt and smart | F |
The play's concoction full of art | F |
Your hero raves your heroine cries | D |
All stab and everybody dies | D |
In short your tragedy would be | E |
The very thing to hear and see | E |
And for a piece of publication | G |
If I decline on this occasion | G |
It is not that I am not sensible | H |
To merits in themselves ostensible | H |
But and I grieve to speak it plays | D |
Are drugs mere drugs sir now a days | D |
I had a heavy loss by 'Manual' | H |
Too lucky if it prove not annual | H |
And Sotheby with his 'Orestes ' | - |
Which by the by the author's best is | D |
Has lain so very long on hand | I |
That I despair of all demand | I |
I've advertised but see my books | D |
Or only watch my shopman's looks | D |
Still Ivan Ina and such lumber | J |
My back shop glut my shelves encumber | J |
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There's Byron too who once did better | J |
Has sent me folded in a letter | J |
A sort of it's no more a drama | K |
Than Darnley Ivan or Kehama | K |
So alter'd since last year his pen is | D |
I think he's lost his wits at Venice | D |
In short sir what with one and t'other | J |
I dare not venture on another | J |
I write in haste excuse each blunder | J |
The coaches through the street so thun der | J |
My room's so full we've Gifford here | L |
Reading MS with Hookham Frere | M |
Pronouncing on the nouns and particles | D |
Of some of our forthcoming Articles | D |
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The Quarterly Ah sir if you | N |
Had but the genius to review | N |
A smart critique upon St Helena | K |
Or if you only would but tell in a | K |
Short compass what but to resume | K |
As I was saying sir the room | K |
The room's so full of wits and bards | D |
Crabbes Campbells Crokers Freres and Wards | D |
And others neither bards nor wits | D |
My humble tenement admits | D |
All persons in the dress of gent | O |
From Mr Hammond to Dog Dent | O |
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A party dines with me to day | A |
All clever men who make their way | A |
Crabbe Malcolm Hamilton and Chantrey | M |
Are all partakers of my pantry | M |
They're at this moment in discussion | G |
On poor De Sta l's late dissolution | G |
Her book they say was in advance | D |
Pray Heaven she tell the truth of France | D |
Thus run our time and tongues away | A |
But to return sir to your play | A |
Sorry sir but I cannot deal | H |
Unless 'twere acted by O'Neill | H |
My hands so full my head so busy | M |
I'm almost dead and always dizzy | M |
And so with endless truth and hurry | M |
Dear Doctor I am yours | D |
JOHN MURRAY | M |
George Gordon Byron
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