Prologue To "limberham." Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDDEEEFFFGGGHHHI IIIIIJJJTrue wit has seen its best days long ago | A |
It ne'er look'd up since we were dipp'd in show | A |
When sense in doggerel rhymes and clouds was lost | B |
And dulness flourish'd at the actors' cost | C |
Nor stopp'd it here when tragedy was done | D |
Satire and humour the same fate have run | D |
And comedy is sunk to trick and pun | D |
Now our machining lumber will not sell | E |
And you no longer care for heaven or hell | E |
What stuff can please you next the Lord can tell | E |
Let them who the rebellion first began | F |
To wit restore the monarch if they can | F |
Our author dares not be the first bold man | F |
He like the prudent citizen takes care | G |
To keep for better marts his staple ware | G |
His toys are good enough for Sturbridge fair | G |
Tricks were the fashion if it now be spent | H |
'Tis time enough at Easter to invent | H |
No man will make up a new suit for Lent | H |
If now and then he takes a small pretence | I |
To forage for a little wit and sense | I |
Pray pardon him he meant you no offence | I |
Next summer Nostradamus tells they say | I |
That all the critics shall be shipp'd away | I |
And not enow be left to damn a play | I |
To every sail beside good heaven be kind | J |
But drive away that swarm with such a wind | J |
That not one locust may be left behind | J |
John Dryden
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