The Book-plate's Petition Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBCCBBDDBBEEBBFFGG HHIIGGGGGBJJKKBBHHLL LL LG| By A Gentleman Of The Temple | A |
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| While cynic CHARLES still trimm'd the vane | B |
| 'Twixt Querouaille and Castlemaine | B |
| In days that shocked JOHN EVELYN | B |
| My First Possessor fixed me in | B |
| In days of Dutchmen and of frost | C |
| The narrow sea with JAMES I cross'd | C |
| Returning when once more began | B |
| The Age of Saturn and of ANNE | B |
| I am a part of all the past | D |
| I knew the GEORGES first and last | D |
| I have been oft where else was none | B |
| Save the great wig of ADDISON | B |
| And seen on shelves beneath me grope | E |
| The little eager form of POPE | E |
| I lost the Third that owned me when | B |
| French NOAILLES fled at Dettingen | B |
| The year JAMES WOLFE surpris'd Quebec | F |
| The Fourth in hunting broke his neck | F |
| The day that WILLIAM HOGARTH dy'd | G |
| The Fifth one found me in Cheapside | G |
| This was a Scholar one of those | H |
| Whose Greek is sounder than their hose | H |
| He lov'd old Books and nappy ale | I |
| So liv'd at Streatham next to THRALE | I |
| 'Twas there this stain of grease I boast | G |
| Was made by Dr JOHNSON'S toast | G |
| He did it as I think for Spite | G |
| My Master call'd him Jacobite | G |
| And now that I so long to day | G |
| Have rested post discrimina | B |
| Safe in the brass wir'd book case where | J |
| I watch'd the Vicar's whit'ning hair | J |
| Must I these travell'd bones inter | K |
| In some Collector's sepulchre | K |
| Must I be torn herefrom and thrown | B |
| With frontispiece and colophon | B |
| With vagrant E's and I's and O's | H |
| The spoil of plunder'd Folios | H |
| With scraps and snippets that to ME | L |
| Are naught but kitchen company | L |
| Nay rather FRIEND this favour grant me | L |
| Tear me at once but don't transplant me | L |
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| Cheltenham | L |
| Sept | G |
Henry Austin Dobson
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