Impromptus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCBDDDB EEEB FFFB GGHB IAIA JHJH| Strahan Tonson Lintot of the times | A |
| Patron and publisher of rhymes | A |
| For thee the bard up Pindus climbs | A |
| My Murray | B |
| To thee with hope and terror dumb | C |
| The unfledged MS authors come | C |
| Thou printest all and sellest some | C |
| My Murray | B |
| Upon thy table's baize so green | D |
| The last new Quarterly is seen | D |
| But where is thy new Magazine | D |
| My Murray | B |
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| Along thy sprucest bookshelves shine | E |
| The works thou deemest most divine | E |
| The Art of Cookery and mine | E |
| My Murray | B |
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| Tours Travels Essays too I wist | F |
| And Sermons to thy mill bring grist | F |
| And then thou hast the Navy List | F |
| My Murray | B |
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| And Heaven forbid I should conclude | G |
| Without the Board of Longitude | G |
| Although this narrow paper would | H |
| My Murray | B |
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| When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home | I |
| Let him combat for that of his neighbours | A |
| Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome | I |
| And get knock'd on the head for his labours | A |
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| To do good to mankind is the chivalrous plan | J |
| And is always as nobly requited | H |
| Then battle for freedom wherever you can | J |
| And if not shot or hang'd you'll get knighted | H |
George Gordon Byron
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