Prologue To The Indian Queen. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDD EEFF GGH IJK LL MNEE| As the music plays a soft air the curtain rises slowly and discovers an Indian boy and girl sleeping under two plantain trees and when the curtain is almost up the music turns into a tune expressing an alarm at which the boy awakes and speaks | A |
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| BOY Wake wake Quevira our soft rest must cease | B |
| And fly together with our country's peace | B |
| No more must we sleep under plantain shade | C |
| Which neither heat could pierce nor cold invade | C |
| Where bounteous nature never feels decay | D |
| And opening buds drive falling fruits away | D |
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| QUE Why should men quarrel here where all possess | E |
| As much as they can hope for by success | E |
| None can have most where nature is so kind | F |
| As to exceed man's use though not his mind | F |
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| BOY By ancient prophecies we have been told | G |
| Our world shall be subdued by one more old | G |
| And see that world already's hither come | H |
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| QUE If these be they we welcome then our doom | I |
| Their loots are such that mercy flows from thence | J |
| More gentle than our native innocence | K |
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| BOY Why should we then fear these our enemies | L |
| That rather seem to us like deities | L |
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| QUE By their protection let us beg to live | M |
| They came not here to conquer but forgive | N |
| If so your goodness may your power express | E |
| And we shall judge both best by our success | E |
John Dryden
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