The Successful Author Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE EEEECCFFEEEEGGHHIIJJ KKLMMEENNOOEENNPQNNR RSSTTUUVV EE| When Fate presents us with the Bays | A |
| We prize the Praiser not the Praise | A |
| We scarcely think our Fame eternal | B |
| If vouched for by the Farthing Journal | B |
| But when the Craftsman's self has spoken | C |
| We take it for a certain Token | C |
| This an Example best will show | D |
| Derived from DENNIS DIDEROT | E |
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| A hackney Author who'd essayed | E |
| All Hazards of the scribbling Trade | E |
| And failed to live by every Mode | E |
| From Persian Tale to Birthday Ode | E |
| Embarked at last thro' pure Starvation | C |
| In Theologic Speculation | C |
| 'Tis commonly affirmed his Pen | F |
| Had been most orthodox till then | F |
| But oft as SOCRATES has said | E |
| The Stomach's stronger than the Head | E |
| And for a sudden Change of Creed | E |
| There is no Jesuit like Need | E |
| Then too 'twas cheap he took it all | G |
| By force of Habit from the Gaul | G |
| He showed the Trick is nowise new | H |
| That Nothing we believe is true | H |
| But chiefly that Mistake is rife | I |
| Touching the point of After Life | I |
| Here all were wrong from PLATO down | J |
| His Price in Boards was Half a Crown | J |
| The Thing created quite a Scare | K |
| He got a Letter from VOLTAIRE | K |
| Naming him Ami and Confr re | L |
| Besides two most attractive Offers | M |
| Of Chaplaincies from noted Scoffers | M |
| He fell forthwith his Head to lift | E |
| To talk of I and DR SW FT | E |
| And brag at Clubs as one who spoke | N |
| On equal Terms with BOLINGBROKE | N |
| But at the last a Missive came | O |
| That put the Copestone to his Fame | O |
| The Boy who brought it would not wait | E |
| It bore a Covent Garden Date | E |
| A woful Sheet with doubtful Ink | N |
| And Air of Bridewell or the Clink | N |
| It ran in this wise Learned Sir | P |
| We whose Subscriptions follow here | Q |
| Desire to state our Fellow feeling | N |
| In this Religion you're revealing | N |
| You make it plain that if so be | R |
| We 'scape on Earth from Tyburn Tree | R |
| There's nothing left for us to fear | S |
| In this or any other Sphere | S |
| We offer you our Thanks and hope | T |
| Your Honor too may cheat the Rope | T |
| With that came all the Names beneath | U |
| As BLUESKIN JERRY CLINCH MACHEATH | U |
| BET CARELESS and the Rest a Score | V |
| Of Rogues and Bona Robas more | V |
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| This Newgate Calendar he read | E |
| 'Tis not recorded what he said | E |
Henry Austin Dobson
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