Epilogue To Agamemnon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHIJJDD KKLL| Our bard to modern epilogue a foe | A |
| Thinks such mean mirth but deadens generous woe | A |
| Dispels in idle air the moral sigh | B |
| And wipes the tender tear from Pity's eye | B |
| No more with social warmth the bosom burns | C |
| But all the unfeeling selfish man returns | C |
| Thus he began And you approved the strain | D |
| Till the next couplet sunk to light and vain | D |
| You check'd him there To you to reason just | E |
| He owns he triumph'd in your kind disgust | E |
| Charm'd by your frown by your displeasure graced | F |
| He hails the rising virtue of your taste | F |
| Wide will its influence spread as soon as known | G |
| Truth to be loved needs only to be shown | G |
| Confirm it once the fashion to be good | H |
| Since fashion leads the fool and awes the rude | I |
| No petulance shall wound the public ear | J |
| No hand applaud what honour shuns to hear | J |
| No painful blush the modest cheek shall stain | D |
| The worthy breast shall heave with no disdain | D |
| Chastised to decency the British stage | K |
| Shall oft invite the fair invite the sage | K |
| Both shall attend well pleased well pleased depart | L |
| Or if they doom the verse absolve the heart | L |
James Thomson
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