Apollo's Edict Occasioned By "news From Parnassus" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDEEBBFFAAGGD DDHHIIJJKKLLMMMNNAAN NBBNNOOPQRRNNSSGGTTR RUURRNNVVWWRRXX| Ireland is now our royal care | A |
| We lately fix'd our viceroy there | A |
| How near was she to be undone | B |
| Till pious love inspired her son | B |
| What cannot our vicegerent do | C |
| As poet and as patriot too | C |
| Let his success our subjects sway | D |
| Our inspirations to obey | D |
| And follow where he leads the way | D |
| Then study to correct your taste | E |
| Nor beaten paths be longer traced | E |
| No simile shall be begun | B |
| With rising or with setting sun | B |
| And let the secret head of Nile | F |
| Be ever banish'd from your isle | F |
| When wretched lovers live on air | A |
| I beg you'll the chameleon spare | A |
| And when you'd make a hero grander | G |
| Forget he's like a salamander | G |
| No son of mine shall dare to say | D |
| Aurora usher'd in the day | D |
| Or ever name the milky way | D |
| You all agree I make no doubt | H |
| Elijah's mantle is worn out | H |
| The bird of Jove shall toil no more | I |
| To teach the humble wren to soar | I |
| Your tragic heroes shall not rant | J |
| Nor shepherds use poetic cant | J |
| Simplicity alone can grace | K |
| The manners of the rural race | K |
| Theocritus and Philips be | L |
| Your guides to true simplicity | L |
| When Damon's soul shall take its flight | M |
| Though poets have the second sight | M |
| They shall not see a trail of light | M |
| Nor shall the vapours upwards rise | N |
| Nor a new star adorn the skies | N |
| For who can hope to place one there | A |
| As glorious as Belinda's hair | A |
| Yet if his name you'd eternize | N |
| And must exalt him to the skies | N |
| Without a star this may be done | B |
| So Tickell mourn'd his Addison | B |
| If Anna's happy reign you praise | N |
| Pray not a word of halcyon days | N |
| Nor let my votaries show their skill | O |
| In aping lines from Cooper's Hill | O |
| For know I cannot bear to hear | P |
| The mimicry of deep yet clear | Q |
| Whene'er my viceroy is address'd | R |
| Against the phoenix I protest | R |
| When poets soar in youthful strains | N |
| No Phaethon to hold the reins | N |
| When you describe a lovely girl | S |
| No lips of coral teeth of pearl | S |
| Cupid shall ne'er mistake another | G |
| However beauteous for his mother | G |
| Nor shall his darts at random fly | T |
| From magazine in Celia's eye | T |
| With woman compounds I am cloy'd | R |
| Which only pleased in Biddy Floyd | R |
| For foreign aid what need they roam | U |
| Whom fate has amply blest at home | U |
| Unerring Heaven with bounteous hand | R |
| Has form'd a model for your land | R |
| Whom Jove endued with every grace | N |
| The glory of the Granard race | N |
| Now destined by the powers divine | V |
| The blessing of another line | V |
| Then would you paint a matchless dame | W |
| Whom you'd consign to endless fame | W |
| Invoke not Cytherea's aid | R |
| Nor borrow from the blue eyed maid | R |
| Nor need you on the Graces call | X |
| Take qualities from Donegal | X |
Jonathan Swift
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