Prologue To Sir Martin Marr-all. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGHIIJJ| Fools which each man meets in his dish each day | A |
| Are yet the great regalios of a play | A |
| In which to poets you but just appear | B |
| To prize that highest which cost them so dear | B |
| Fops in the town more easily will pass | C |
| One story makes a statutable ass | C |
| But such in plays must be much thicker sown | D |
| Like yolks of eggs a dozen beat to one | E |
| Observing poets all their walks invade | F |
| As men watch woodcocks gliding through a glade | F |
| And when they have enough for comedy | G |
| They stow their several bodies in a pie | H |
| The poet's but the cook to fashion it | I |
| For gallants you yourselves have found the wit | I |
| To bid you welcome would your bounty wrong | J |
| None welcome those who bring their cheer along | J |
John Dryden
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