Prologue To The University Of Oxford. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFFGGHHIIJJKLM MNNNOOPPQLRRSSTU| Discord and plots which have undone our age | A |
| With the same ruin have o'erwhelm'd the stage | A |
| Our house has suffer'd in the common woe | B |
| We have been troubled with Scotch rebels too | C |
| Our brethren are from Thames to Tweed departed | D |
| And of our sisters all the kinder hearted | D |
| To Edinburgh gone or coach'd or carted | E |
| With bonny bluecap there they act all night | F |
| For Scotch half crown in English three pence hight | F |
| One nymph to whom fat Sir John Falstaff's lean | G |
| There with her single person fills the scene | G |
| Another with long use and age decay'd | H |
| Dived here old woman and rose there a maid | H |
| Our trusty doorkeepers of former time | I |
| There strut and swagger in heroic rhyme | I |
| Tack but a copper lace to drugget suit | J |
| And there's a hero made without dispute | J |
| And that which was a capon's tail before | K |
| Becomes a plume for Indian emperor | L |
| But all his subjects to express the care | M |
| Of imitation go like Indians bare | M |
| Laced linen there would be a dangerous thing | N |
| It might perhaps a new rebellion bring | N |
| The Scot who wore it would be chosen king | N |
| But why should I these renegades describe | O |
| When you yourselves have seen a lewder tribe | O |
| Teague has been here and to this learned pit | P |
| With Irish action slander'd English wit | P |
| You have beheld such barbarous Macs appear | Q |
| As merited a second massacre | L |
| Such as like Cain were branded with disgrace | R |
| And had their country stamp'd upon their face | R |
| When strollers durst presume to pick your purse | S |
| We humbly thought our broken troop not worse | S |
| How ill soe'er our action may deserve | T |
| Oxford's a place where wit can never starve | U |
John Dryden
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