Prologue To "limberham." Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDDEEEFFFGGGHHHI IIIIIJJJ| True 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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