Prologue To The True Widow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHIIHHJJ KKLLMMNNOOPQ| Heaven save ye gallants and this hopeful age | A |
| Y' are welcome to the downfall of the stage | A |
| The fools have laboured long in their vocation | B |
| And vice the manufacture of the nation | B |
| O'erstocks the town so much and thrives so well | C |
| That fops and knaves grow drugs and will not sell | C |
| In vain our wares on theatres are shown | D |
| When each has a plantation of his own | D |
| His cruse ne'er fails for whatsoe'er he spends | E |
| There's still God's plenty for himself and friends | E |
| Should men be rated by poetic rules | F |
| Lord what a poll would there be raised from fools | F |
| Meantime poor wit prohibited must lie | G |
| As if 'twere made some French commodity | H |
| Fools you will have and raised at vast expense | I |
| And yet as soon as seen they give offence | I |
| Time was when none would cry That oaf was me | H |
| But now you strive about your pedigree | H |
| Bauble and cap no sooner are thrown down | J |
| But there's a muss of more than half the town | J |
| Each one will challenge a child's part at least | K |
| A sign the family is well increased | K |
| Of foreign cattle there's no longer need | L |
| When we're supplied so fast with English breed | L |
| Well flourish countrymen drink swear and roar | M |
| Let every free born subject keep his whore | M |
| And wandering in the wilderness about | N |
| At end of forty years not wear her out | N |
| But when you see these pictures let none dare | O |
| To own beyond a limb or single share | O |
| For where the punk is common he's a sot | P |
| Who needs will father what the parish got | Q |
John Dryden
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