The Poet And The Advocate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDAAEFGHIIJJKK LLAAJJMM N| Glory and gain thus mixed distract the thought | A |
| We owe to honour all to fortune nought | A |
| The poet like the soldier scorns for pay | B |
| Peruvian gold but seeks the wreath of bay | B |
| How is the advocate the poet's peer | C |
| The poet's glory is complete and clear | C |
| He far outlives the advocate's renown | D |
| Patru is e'en by Scarron's name weighed down | D |
| The bar of Greece and Rome you point me out | A |
| A bar that trained great men I do not doubt | A |
| For then chicane with language void of sense | E |
| Had not deformed the law and eloquence | F |
| Purge the tribune of all this monstrous growth | G |
| I mount it and my soul will sink though loth | H |
| Will yield to fortune and will speak in prose | I |
| But since reform in this so slowly grows | I |
| Leave me my tastes for I aspire to be | J |
| By verse ennobled to posterity | J |
| To hold first place in arts above the law | K |
| More grave and noble than it ever saw | K |
| Fraud in this age of ours unpunished can | L |
| Tread down the equity so dear to man | L |
| Can you for spirits just and generous find | A |
| A fairer cause to plead before mankind | A |
| Mother or stepmother let Fortune be | J |
| The theatre and not the bar for me | J |
| For client virtue truth for counsel's wage | M |
| For judge the present and the coming age | M |
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| Piron La M tromanie Act iii Sc | N |
James Williams
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