An Epilogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBBCCAADDAAEEFAC CGGEEAAEEEEEEBBAA| You saw your wife was chaste yet throughly tried | A |
| And without doubt you are hugely edified | A |
| For like our hero whom we showed to day | A |
| You think no woman true but in a play | A |
| Love once did make a pretty kind of show | B |
| Esteem and kindness in one breast would grow | B |
| But 'twas heaven knows how many years ago | B |
| Now some small chat and guinea expectation | C |
| Gets all the pretty creatures in the nation | C |
| In comedy your little selves you meet | A |
| 'Tis Covent Garden drawn in Bridges Street | A |
| Smile on our author then if he has shown | D |
| A jolly nut brown bastard of your own | D |
| Ah happy you with ease and with delight | A |
| Who act those follies poets toil to write | A |
| The sweating Muse does almost leave the chase | E |
| She puffs and hardly keeps your Protean vices pace | E |
| Pinch you but in one vice away you fly | F |
| To some new frisk of contrariety | A |
| You roll like snow balls gathering as you run | C |
| And get seven devils when dispossessed of one | C |
| Your Venus once was a Platonic queen | G |
| Nothing of love beside the face was seen | G |
| But every inch of her you now uncase | E |
| And clap a vizard mask upon the face | E |
| For sins like these the zealous of the land | A |
| With little hair and little or no band | A |
| Declare how circulating pestilences | E |
| Watch every twenty years to snap offences | E |
| Saturn e'en now takes doctoral degrees | E |
| He'll do your work this summer without fees | E |
| Let all the boxes Ph bus find thy grace | E |
| And ah preserve the eighteen penny place | E |
| But for the pit confounders let them go | B |
| And find as little mercy as they show | B |
| The actors thus and thus thy poets pray | A |
| For every critic saved thou damn'st a play | A |
John Dryden
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