To Dean Swift Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBCCDDEEFFGGEEEEFF HHBBBBEEIJKKFF| BY SIR ARTHUR ACHESON | A |
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| Good cause have I to sing and vapour | B |
| For I am landlord to the Drapier | B |
| He that of every ear's the charmer | B |
| Now condescends to be my farmer | B |
| And grace my villa with his strains | C |
| Lives such a bard on British plains | C |
| No not in all the British court | D |
| For none but witlings there resort | D |
| Whose names and works though dead are made | E |
| Immortal by the Dunciad | E |
| And sure as monument of brass | F |
| Their fame to future times shall pass | F |
| How with a weakly warbling tongue | G |
| Of brazen knight they vainly sung | G |
| A subject for their genius fit | E |
| He dares defy both sense and wit | E |
| What dares he not He can we know it | E |
| A laureat make that is no poet | E |
| A judge without the least pretence | F |
| To common law or common sense | F |
| A bishop that is no divine | H |
| And coxcombs in red ribbons shine | H |
| Nay he can make what's greater far | B |
| A middle state 'twixt peace and war | B |
| And say there shall for years together | B |
| Be peace and war and both and neither | B |
| Happy O Market Hill at least | E |
| That court and courtiers have no taste | E |
| You never else had known the Dean | I |
| But as of old obscurely lain | J |
| All things gone on the same dull track | K |
| And Drapier's Hill been still Drumlack | K |
| But now your name with Penshurst vies | F |
| And wing'd with fame shall reach the skies | F |
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