To The Memory Of Mr. Oldham Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGBBHHII IGGJJ| Farewell too little and too lately known | A |
| Whom I began to think and call my own | A |
| For sure our souls were near allied and thine | B |
| Cast in the same poetic mould with mine | B |
| One common note on either lyre did strike | C |
| And knaves and fools we both abhorred alike | C |
| To the same goal did both our studies drive | D |
| The last set out the soonest did arrive | D |
| Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place | E |
| While his young friend performed and won the race | E |
| O early ripe to thy abundant store | F |
| What could advancing age have added more | F |
| It might what Nature never gives the young | G |
| Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue | G |
| But satire needs not those and wit will shine | B |
| Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line | B |
| A noble error and but seldom made | H |
| When poets are by too much force betrayed | H |
| Thy generous fruits though gathered ere their prime | I |
| Still showed a quickness and maturing time | I |
| But mellows what we write to the dull sweets of rhyme | I |
| Once more hail and farewell farewell thou young | G |
| But ah too short Marcellus of our tongue | G |
| Thy brows with ivy and with laurels bound | J |
| But fate and gloomy night encompass thee around | J |
John Dryden
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