A Welcome From The "johnson Club" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCD EEFF GGHHDDII JJKKKKLLKK MM| To William John Courthope March | A |
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| When Pope came back from Trojan wars once more | B |
| He found a Bard to meet him on the shore | B |
| And hail his advent with a strain as clear | C |
| As e'er was sung by BYRON or by FRERE | D |
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| You SIR have travelled from no distant clime | E |
| Yet would JOHN GAY could welcome you in rhyme | E |
| And by some fable not too coldly penned | F |
| Teach how with judgment one may praise a Friend | F |
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| There is no need that I should tell in words | G |
| Your prowess from The Paradise of Birds | G |
| No need to show how surely you have traced | H |
| The Life in Poetry the Law in Taste | H |
| Or mark with what unwearied strength you wear | D |
| The weight that WARTON found too great to bear | D |
| There Is no need for this or that My plan | I |
| Is less to laud the Matter than the Man | I |
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| This is my brief We recognise in you | J |
| The mind judicial the untroubled view | J |
| The critic who without pedantic pose | K |
| Takes his firm foothold on the thing he knows | K |
| Who free alike from passion or pretence | K |
| Holds the good rule of calm and common sense | K |
| And be the subject or perplexed or plain | L |
| Clear or confusing is throughout urbane | L |
| Patient persuasive logical precise | K |
| And only hard to vanity and vice | K |
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| More I could add but brevity is best | M |
| These are our claims to honour you as Guest | M |
Henry Austin Dobson
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