Bettesworth's Exultation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEEFGHHIIJJKKKKHLMN OOKKPPQQRI| Upon Hearing That His Name Would Be Transmitted To Posterity In Dr Swift's Works | A |
| By William Dunkin | B |
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| Well now since the heat of my passion's abated | C |
| That the Dean hath lampoon'd me my mind is elated | D |
| Lampoon'd did I call it No what was it then | E |
| What was it 'Twas fame to be lash'd by his pen | E |
| For had he not pointed me out I had slept till | F |
| E'en doomsday a poor insignificant reptile | G |
| Half lawyer half actor pert dull and inglorious | H |
| Obscure and unheard of but now I'm notorious | H |
| Fame has but two gates a white and a black one | I |
| The worst they can say is I got in at the back one | I |
| If the end be obtain'd 'tis equal what portal | J |
| I enter since I'm to be render'd immortal | J |
| So clysters applied to the anus 'tis said | K |
| By skilful physicians give ease to the head | K |
| Though my title be spurious why should I be dastard | K |
| A man is a man though he should be a bastard | K |
| Why sure 'tis some comfort that heroes should slay us | H |
| If I fall I would fall by the hand of neas | L |
| And who by the Drapier would not rather damn'd be | M |
| Than demigoddized by madrigal Namby | N |
| A man is no more who has once lost his breath | O |
| But poets convince us there's life after death | O |
| They call from their graves the king or the peasant | K |
| Re act our old deeds and make what's past present | K |
| And when they would study to set forth alike | P |
| So the lines be well drawn and the colours but strike | P |
| Whatever the subject be coward or hero | Q |
| A tyrant or patriot a Titus or Nero | Q |
| To a judge 'tis all one which he fixes his eye on | R |
| And a well painted monkey's as good as a lion | I |
Jonathan Swift
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