Prologue To Tancred And Sigismunda Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGBHHIIJKLL MMNNOOPPQQ| Bold is the man who in this nicer age | A |
| Presumes to tread the chaste corrected stage | A |
| Now with gay tinsel arts we can no more | B |
| Conceal the want of Nature's sterling ore | B |
| Our spells are vanish'd broke our magic wand | C |
| That used to wast you over sea and land | D |
| Before your light the fairy people fade | E |
| The demons fly the ghost itself is laid | E |
| In vain of martial scenes the loud alarms | F |
| The mighty prompter thundering out to arms | F |
| The playhouse posse clattering from afar | G |
| The close wedged battle and the din of war | B |
| Now e'en the senate seldom we convene | H |
| The yawning fathers nod behind the scene | H |
| Your taste rejects the glittering false sublime | I |
| To sigh in metaphor and die in rhyme | I |
| High rant is tumbled from his gallery throne | J |
| Description dreams nay similies are gone | K |
| What shall we then to please you how devise | L |
| Whose judgment sits not in your ears and eyes | L |
| Thrice happy could we catch great Shakespeare's art | M |
| To trace the deep recesses of the heart | M |
| His simple plain sublime to which is given | N |
| To strike the soul with darted flame from heaven | N |
| Could we awake soft Otway's tender woe | O |
| The pomp of verse and golden lines of Rowe | O |
| We to your hearts apply let them attend | P |
| Before their silent candid bar we bend | P |
| If warm'd they listen 'tis our noblest praise | Q |
| If cold they wither all the Muse's bays | Q |
James Thomson
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