Epilogue To The Indian Emperor, By A Mercury Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFFGGHIJJFFKLMM NBBOONN| To all and singular in this full meeting | A |
| Ladies and gallants Phoebus sends ye greeting | A |
| To all his sons by whate'er title known | B |
| Whether of court or coffee house or town | C |
| From his most mighty sons whose confidence | D |
| Is placed in lofty sound and humble sense | E |
| Even to his little infants of the time | F |
| Who write new songs and trust in tune and rhyme | F |
| Be 't known that Phoebus being daily grieved | G |
| To see good plays condemn'd and bad received | G |
| Ordains your judgment upon every cause | H |
| Henceforth be limited by wholesome laws | I |
| He first thinks fit no sonnetteer advance | J |
| His censure farther than the song or dance | J |
| Your wit burlesque may one step higher climb | F |
| And in his sphere may judge all doggrel rhyme | F |
| All proves and moves and loves and honours too | K |
| All that appears high sense and scarce is low | L |
| As for the coffee wits he says not much | M |
| Their proper business is to damn the Dutch | M |
| For the great dons of wit | N |
| Phoebus gives them full privilege alone | B |
| To damn all others and cry up their own | B |
| Last for the ladies 'tis Apollo's will | O |
| They should have power to save but not to kill | O |
| For love and he long since have thought it fit | N |
| Wit live by beauty beauty reign by wit | N |
John Dryden
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