Prologue To Tyrannic Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEEFFGHIIJJK KLLMM| Self love which never rightly understood | A |
| Makes poets still conclude their plays are good | A |
| And malice in all critics reigns so high | B |
| That for small errors they whole plays decry | B |
| So that to see this fondness and that spite | C |
| You'd think that none but madmen judge or write | C |
| Therefore our poet as he thinks not fit | D |
| To impose upon you what he writes for wit | D |
| So hopes that leaving you your censures free | E |
| You equal judges of the whole will be | E |
| They judge but half who only faults will see | E |
| Poets like lovers should be bold and dare | F |
| They spoil their business with an over care | F |
| And he who servilely creeps after sense | G |
| Is safe but ne'er will reach an excellence | H |
| Hence 'tis our poet in his conjuring | I |
| Allow'd his fancy the full scope and swing | I |
| But when a tyrant for his theme he had | J |
| He loosed the reins and bid his muse run mad | J |
| And though he stumbles in a full career | K |
| Yet rashness is a better fault than fear | K |
| He saw his way but in so swift a pace | L |
| To choose the ground might be to lose the race | L |
| They then who of each trip the advantage take | M |
| Find but those faults which they want wit to make | M |
John Dryden
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