Poet John Dryden

John Dryden

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Prologue To The University Of Oxford. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFFGGHHIIJJKLM MNNNOOPPQLRRSSTU

Discord and plots which have undone our ageA
With the same ruin have o'erwhelm'd the stageA
Our house has suffer'd in the common woeB
We have been troubled with Scotch rebels tooC
Our brethren are from Thames to Tweed departedD
And of our sisters all the kinder heartedD
To Edinburgh gone or coach'd or cartedE
With bonny bluecap there they act all nightF
For Scotch half crown in English three pence hightF
One nymph to whom fat Sir John Falstaff's leanG
There with her single person fills the sceneG
Another with long use and age decay'dH
Dived here old woman and rose there a maidH
Our trusty doorkeepers of former timeI
There strut and swagger in heroic rhymeI
Tack but a copper lace to drugget suitJ
And there's a hero made without disputeJ
And that which was a capon's tail beforeK
Becomes a plume for Indian emperorL
But all his subjects to express the careM
Of imitation go like Indians bareM
Laced linen there would be a dangerous thingN
It might perhaps a new rebellion bringN
The Scot who wore it would be chosen kingN
But why should I these renegades describeO
When you yourselves have seen a lewder tribeO
Teague has been here and to this learned pitP
With Irish action slander'd English witP
You have beheld such barbarous Macs appearQ
As merited a second massacreL
Such as like Cain were branded with disgraceR
And had their country stamp'd upon their faceR
When strollers durst presume to pick your purseS
We humbly thought our broken troop not worseS
How ill soe'er our action may deserveT
Oxford's a place where wit can never starveU

John Dryden



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