Prologue To Mallet's Mustapha Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGEEAAHH IICCJJKKLL| Since Athens first began to draw mankind | A |
| To picture life and show the impassion'd mind | A |
| The truly wise have ever deem'd the stage | B |
| The moral school of each enlighten'd age | B |
| There in full pomp the tragic Muse appears | C |
| Queen of soft sorrows and of useful fears | C |
| Faint is the lesson reason's rules impart | D |
| She pours it strong and instant through the heart | D |
| If virtue is her theme we sudden glow | E |
| With generous flame and what we feel we grow | E |
| If vice she paints indignant passions rise | F |
| The villain sees himself with loathing eyes | F |
| His soul starts conscious at another's groan | G |
| And the pale tyrant trembles on his throne | G |
| To night our meaning scene attempts to show | E |
| What fell events from dark suspicion flow | E |
| Chief when it taints a lawless monarch's mind | A |
| To the false herd of flattering slaves confined | A |
| The soul sinks gradual to so dire a state | H |
| E'en excellence but serves to feed its hate | H |
| To hate remorseless cruelty succeeds | I |
| And every worth and every virtue bleeds | I |
| Behold our author at your bar appears | C |
| His modest hopes depress'd by conscious fears | C |
| Faults he has many but to balance those | J |
| His verse with heart felt love of virtue glows | J |
| All slighter errors let indulgence spare | K |
| And be his equal trial full and fair | K |
| For this best British privilege we call | L |
| Then as he merits let him stand or fall | L |
James Thomson
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