Address. For The Benefit Of William Dunlap Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEFGHHHIIBBJKLLM MNNOOPPQQRRSSTTUUVVW WXYZZA2B2C2C2GGD2D2E 2E2| Spoken by Mrs Sharpe | A |
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| What gay assemblage greets my wondering sight | B |
| What scene of splendor conjured here to night | B |
| What voices murmur and what glances gleam | C |
| Sure 'tis some flattering unsubstantial dream | C |
| The house is crowded everybody's here | D |
| For beauty famous or to science dear | E |
| Doctors and lawyers judges belles and beaux | F |
| Poets and painters and Heaven only knows | G |
| Whom else beside And see gay ladies sit | H |
| Lighting with smiles that fearful place the pit | H |
| A fairy change ah pray continue it | H |
| Gray heads are here too listening to my rhymes | I |
| Full of the spirit of departed times | I |
| Grave men and studious strangers to my sight | B |
| All gather round me on this brilliant night | B |
| And welcome are ye all Not now ye come | J |
| To speak some trembling poet's awful doom | K |
| With frowning eyes a want of mind to trace | L |
| In some new actor's inexperienced face | L |
| Or e'en us old ones oh for shame to rate | M |
| With study good in time but never great | M |
| Not like you travelled native just to say | N |
| Folks in this country can act a play | N |
| The can't 'pon honor How the creature starts | O |
| His wit and whiskers came from foreign parts | O |
| Nay madam spare your blushes you I mean | P |
| There close beside him oh you're full nineteen | P |
| You need not shake your flowing locks at me | Q |
| The man your sweetheart then I'm dumb you see | Q |
| I'll let him off you'll punish him in time | R |
| Or I've no skill in prophecy or rhyme | R |
| A nobler motive fills your bosoms now | S |
| To wreathe the laurel round the silvered brow | S |
| Of one who merits it if any can | T |
| The artist author and the honest man | T |
| With equal charms his pen and pencil drew | U |
| Bright scenes to nature and to virtue true | U |
| Full oft upon these boards hath youth appeared | V |
| And oft your smiles his faltering footsteps cheered | V |
| But not alone on budding genius smile | W |
| Leaving the ripened sheaf unowned the while | W |
| To boyish hope not every bounty give | X |
| And only youth and beauty bid to live | Y |
| Will you forget the services long past | Z |
| Turn the old war horse out to die at last | Z |
| When his proud strength and noble fleetness o'er | A2 |
| His faithful bosom dares the charge no more | B2 |
| Ah no The sun that loves his beams to shed | C2 |
| Round every opening floweret's tender head | C2 |
| With smiles as kind his genial radiance throws | G |
| To cheer the sadness of the fading rose | G |
| Thus he whose merit claims this dazzling crowd | D2 |
| Points to the past and has his claims allowed | D2 |
| Looks brightly forth his faithful journey done | E2 |
| And rests in triumph like the setting sun | E2 |
George Pope Morris
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