Prologue[1] To The University Of Oxford, 1681. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIJKKLL MNOOHHPPQQ| The famed Italian Muse whose rhymes advance | A |
| Orlando and the Paladins of France | A |
| Records that when our wit and sense is flown | B |
| 'Tis lodged within the circle of the moon | C |
| In earthen jars which one who thither soar'd | D |
| Set to his nose snuff'd up and was restored | D |
| Whate'er the story be the moral's true | E |
| The wit we lost in town we find in you | E |
| Our poets their fled parts may draw from hence | F |
| And fill their windy heads with sober sense | F |
| When London votes with Southwark's disagree | G |
| Here may they find their long lost loyalty | G |
| Here busy senates to the old cause inclined | H |
| May snuff the votes their fellows left behind | H |
| Your country neighbours when their grain grows dear | I |
| May come and find their last provision here | J |
| Whereas we cannot much lament our loss | K |
| Who neither carried back nor brought one cross | K |
| We look'd what representatives would bring | L |
| But they help'd us just as they did the king | L |
| Yet we despair not for we now lay forth | M |
| The Sibyl's books to those who know their worth | N |
| And though the first was sacrificed before | O |
| These volumes doubly will the price restore | O |
| Our poet bade us hope this grace to find | H |
| To whom by long prescription you are kind | H |
| He whose undaunted Muse with loyal rage | P |
| Has never spared the vices of the age | P |
| Here finding nothing that his spleen can raise | Q |
| Is forced to turn his satire into praise | Q |
John Dryden
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