Answer To Some Elegant Verses Sent By A Friend To The Author, Complaining That One Of His Descriptio Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC D EEFGHHIIJJKKLLMMNNOO JJPPQQJJNNRRSSTTMMNN UUVV| But if any old Lady Knight Priest or Physician | A |
| Should condemn me for printing a second edition | A |
| If good Madam Squintum my work should abuse | B |
| May I venture to give her a smack of my muse | C |
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| Anstey's 'New Bath Guide' p | D |
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| Candour compels me BECHER to commend | E |
| The verse which blends the censor with the friend | E |
| Your strong yet just reproof extorts applause | F |
| From me the heedless and imprudent cause | G |
| For this wild error which pervades my strain | H |
| I sue for pardon must I sue in vain | H |
| The wise sometimes from Wisdom's ways depart | I |
| Can youth then hush the dictates of the heart | I |
| Precepts of prudence curb but can't controul | J |
| The fierce emotions of the flowing soul | J |
| When Love's delirium haunts the glowing mind | K |
| Limping Decorum lingers far behind | K |
| Vainly the dotard mends her prudish pace | L |
| Outstript and vanquish'd in the mental chase | L |
| The young the old have worn the chains of love | M |
| Let those they ne'er confined my lay reprove | M |
| Let those whose souls contemn the pleasing power | N |
| Their censures on the hapless victim shower | N |
| Oh how I hate the nerveless frigid song | O |
| The ceaseless echo of the rhyming throng | O |
| Whose labour'd lines in chilling numbers flow | J |
| To paint a pang the author ne'er can know | J |
| The artless Helicon I boast is youth | P |
| My Lyre the Heart my Muse the simple Truth | P |
| Far be't from me the virgin's mind to taint | Q |
| Seduction's dread is here no slight restraint | Q |
| The maid whose virgin breast is void of guile | J |
| Whose wishes dimple in a modest smile | J |
| Whose downcast eye disdains the wanton leer | N |
| Firm in her virtue's strength yet not severe | N |
| She whom a conscious grace shall thus refine | R |
| Will ne'er be tainted by a strain of mine | R |
| But for the nymph whose premature desires | S |
| Torment her bosom with unholy fires | S |
| No net to snare her willing heart is spread | T |
| She would have fallen though she ne'er had read | T |
| For me I fain would please the chosen few | M |
| Whose souls to feeling and to nature true | M |
| Will spare the childish verse and not destroy | N |
| The light effusions of a heedless boy | N |
| I seek not glory from the senseless crowd | U |
| Of fancied laurels I shall ne'er be proud | U |
| Their warmest plaudits I would scarcely prize | V |
| Their sneers or censures I alike despise | V |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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