The Ninth Ode Of The Third Book Of Horace Imitated Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEE F GGHH B IIJJ F KLMM B NNOO F EEPQ

Donec gratus eram tibiA
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SIR ROBERT WALPOLEB
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Whilst in each of my schemes you most heartily join'dC
And help'd the worst jobs that I ever design'dD
In pamphlets in ballads in senate at tableE
Thy satire was witty thy counsel was ableE
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WILLIAM PULTENEYF
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Whilst with me you divided both profit and careG
And the plunder and glory did equally shareG
Assur'd of his place if my fat friend should dieH
The Prince of Wales was not so happy as IH
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SIR ROBERT WALPOLEB
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Harry Pelham is now my support and delightI
Whom we bubble all day and we joke on at nightI
His head is well furnish'd his lungs have their meritJ
I would venture a rope to advance such a spiritJ
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WILLIAM PULTENEYF
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I too have a Harry more useful than yoursK
Writes verses like mad and will talk you whole hoursL
I would bleed by the hatchet or swing by the cordM
To see him once more in his robes like a lordM
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SIR ROBERT WALPOLEB
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But what if this quarrel was kindly made upN
Would you my dear Willy accept of a supN
If the queen should confess you had long been her choiceO
And you knew it was I who had spoke in her voiceO
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WILLIAM PULTENEYF
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Though my Harry's so gay so polite and so civilE
You rude as a bear and more proud than the devilE
I gladly would drop him and laugh in your earP
At the fools we have made for this last dozen yearQ

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu



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