To Mr. Dryden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDAADDEEDDFFBBGH IJKKLMIINODDDDPQ| How long great Poet shall thy sacred lays | A |
| Provoke our wonder and transcend our praise | A |
| Can eneither injuries of time or age | B |
| Damp thy poetic heat and quench thy rage | B |
| No so thy Ovid in his exile wrote | C |
| Grief chill'd his breast and check'd his rising thought | D |
| Pensive and sad his drooping Muse betrays | A |
| The Roman genius in its last decays | A |
| Prevailing warmth has still thy mind possest | D |
| And second youth is kindled in thy breast | D |
| Thou mak'st the beauties of the Romans known | E |
| And England boasts of riches not her own | E |
| Thy lines have heighten'd Virgil's majesty | D |
| And Horace wonders at himself in thee | D |
| Thou teachest Persius to inform our isle | F |
| In smoother numbers and a clearer style | F |
| And Juvenal instructed in thy page | B |
| Edges his satire and improves his rage | B |
| Thy copy casts a fairer light on all | G |
| And still out shines the bright original | H |
| Now Ovid boasts th' advanage of thy song | I |
| And tells his story in the British tongue | J |
| Thy charming verse and fair translations show | K |
| How thy own laurel first began to grow | K |
| How wild Lycaon chang'd by angry gods | L |
| And frighted at himself ran howling through the woods | M |
| O may'st thou still the noble talk prolong | I |
| Nor age nor sickness interrupt thy song | I |
| Then may we wondering read how human limbs | N |
| Have water'd kingdoms and dissolv'd in streams | O |
| Of those rich fruits that on the fertile mold | D |
| Turn'd yellow by degrees and ripen'd into gold | D |
| How some in feathers or a ragged hide | D |
| Have liv'd a second life and different natures try'd | D |
| Then will thy Ovid thus transform'd reveal | P |
| A nobler change than he himself can tell | Q |
Joseph Addison
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