Epilogue To Amboyna. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHHIJGGBB HH| A Poet once the Spartans led to fight | A |
| And made them conquer in the muse's right | A |
| So would our poet lead you on this day | B |
| Showing your tortured fathers in his play | B |
| To one well born the affront is worse and more | C |
| When he's abused and baffled by a boor | D |
| With an ill grace the Dutch their mischiefs do | E |
| They've both ill nature and ill manners too | E |
| Well may they boast themselves an ancient nation | F |
| For they were bred ere manners were in fashion | F |
| And their new commonwealth has set them free | G |
| Only from honour and civility | G |
| Venetians do not more uncouthly ride | H |
| Than did their lubber state mankind bestride | H |
| Their sway became them with as ill a mien | I |
| As their own paunches swell above their chin | J |
| Yet is their empire no true growth but humour | G |
| And only two kings' touch can cure the tumour | G |
| As Cato did his Afric fruits display | B |
| So we before your eyes their Indies lay | B |
| All loyal English will like him conclude | H |
| Let C sar live and Carthage be subdued | H |
John Dryden
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