A Familiar Epistle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDCCCC EECCCCFFCCGGCCCCCCHH IICCJJKKLLMNNCCHHFOC CCCCCNOCCHH NN N| To Esq of with a Life of the late Ingenious Mr W M Hogarth | A |
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| Dear Cosmopolitan I know | B |
| I should address you a Rondeau | B |
| Or else announce what I've to say | C |
| At least en Ballade fratris e | D |
| But No for once I leave Gymnasticks | C |
| And take to simple Hudibrasticks | C |
| Why should I choose another Way | C |
| When this was good enough for GAY | C |
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| You love my FRIEND with me I think | E |
| That Age of Lustre and of Link | E |
| Of Chelsea China and long s es | C |
| Of Bag wigs and of flowered Dresses | C |
| That Age of Folly and of Cards | C |
| Of Hackney Chairs and Hackney Bards | C |
| No H LTS no K G N P LS were then | F |
| Dispensing Competence to Men | F |
| The gentle Trade was left to Churls | C |
| Your frowsy TONSONS and your CURLLS | C |
| Mere Wolves in Ambush to attack | G |
| The AUTHOR in a Sheep skin Back | G |
| Then SAVAGE and his Brother Sinners | C |
| In Porridge Island div'd for Dinners | C |
| Or doz'd on Covent Garden Bulks | C |
| And liken'd Letters to the Hulks | C |
| You know that by gone Time I say | C |
| That aimless easy moral'd Day | C |
| When rosy Morn found MADAM still | H |
| Wrangling at Ombre or Quadrille | H |
| When good Sir JOHN reel'd Home to Bed | I |
| From Pontack's or the Shakespear's Head | I |
| When TRIP convey'd his Master's Cloaths | C |
| And took his Titles and his Oaths | C |
| While BETTY in a cast Brocade | J |
| Ogled MY LORD at Masquerade | J |
| When GARRICK play'd the guilty Richard | K |
| Or mouth'd Macbeth with Mrs PRITCHARD | K |
| When FOOTE grimac'd his snarling Wit | L |
| When CHURCHILL bullied in the Pit | L |
| When the CUZZONI sang | M |
| But there | N |
| The further Catalogue I spare | N |
| Having no Purpose to eclipse | C |
| That tedious Tale of HOMER'S Ships | C |
| This is the MAN that drew it all | H |
| From Pannier Alley to the Mall | H |
| Then turn'd and drew it once again | F |
| From Bird Cage Walk to Lewknor's Lane | O |
| Its Rakes and Fools its Rogues and Sots | C |
| Its brawling Quacks its starveling Scots | C |
| Its Ups and Downs its Rags and Garters | C |
| Its HENLEYS LOVATS MALCOLMS CHARTRES | C |
| Its Splendour Squalor Shame Disease | C |
| Its quicquid agunt Homines | C |
| Nor yet omitted to pourtray | N |
| Furens quid possit Foemina | O |
| In short held up to ev'ry Class | C |
| NATURE'S unflatt'ring looking Glass | C |
| And from his Canvass spoke to All | H |
| The Message of a JUVENAL | H |
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| Take Him His Merits most aver | N |
| His weak Point is his Chronicler | N |
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| Nov r | N |
Henry Austin Dobson
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