To Dr. Sheridan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAAAABCAADEAAAAFF AAAAAAAAAGGFF| Whate'er your predecessors taught us | A |
| I have a great esteem for Plautus | A |
| And think your boys may gather there hence | A |
| More wit and humour than from Terence | A |
| But as to comic Aristophanes | A |
| The rogue too vicious and too profane is | A |
| I went in vain to look for Eupolis | A |
| Down in the Strand just where the New Pole is | A |
| For I can tell you one thing that I can | B |
| You will not find it in the Vatican | C |
| He and Cratinus used as Horace says | A |
| To take his greatest grandees for asses | A |
| Poets in those days used to venture high | D |
| But these are lost full many a century | E |
| Thus you may see dear friend ex pede hence | A |
| My judgment of the old comedians | A |
| Proceed to tragics first Euripides | A |
| An author where I sometimes dip a days | A |
| Is rightly censured by the Stagirite | F |
| Who says his numbers do not fadge aright | F |
| A friend of mine that author despises | A |
| So much he swears the very best piece is | A |
| For aught he knows as bad as Thespis's | A |
| And that a woman in these tragedies | A |
| Commonly speaking but a sad jade is | A |
| At least I'm well assured that no folk lays | A |
| The weight on him they do on Sophocles | A |
| But above all I prefer Eschylus | A |
| Whose moving touches when they please kill us | A |
| And now I find my Muse but ill able | G |
| To hold out longer in trissyllable | G |
| I chose those rhymes out for their difficulty | F |
| Will you return as hard ones if I call t'ye | F |
Jonathan Swift
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