To Thomas Edwards, Esquire - On The Late Edition Of Mr. Pope's Work Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDDEFEFGGG HIHIJAAKLMNOOPGQGQRR RSTSTAAAUVUVNNWIXIXY YY| Believe me Edwards to restrain | A |
| The license of a railer's tongue | B |
| Is what but seldom men obtain | A |
| By sense or wit by prose or song | C |
| A task for more Herculean powers | D |
| Nor suited to the sacred hours | D |
| Of leisure in the Muse's bowers | D |
| In bowers where laurel weds with palm | E |
| The Muse the blameless queen resides | F |
| Fair fame attends and wisdom calm | E |
| Her eloquence harmonious guides | F |
| While shut for ever from her gate | G |
| Oft trying still repining wait | G |
| Fierce envy and calumnious hate | G |
| - | |
| Who then from her delightful bounds | H |
| Would step one moment forth to heed | I |
| What impotent and savage sounds | H |
| From their unhappy mouths proceed | I |
| No rather Spenser's lyre again | J |
| Prepare and let thy pious strain | A |
| For Pope's dishonor'd shade complain | A |
| Tell how displeas'd was every bard | K |
| When lately in the Elysian grove | L |
| They of his Muse's guardian heard | M |
| His delegate to fame above | N |
| And what with one accord they said | O |
| Of wit in drooping age misled | O |
| And Warburton's officious aid | P |
| How Virgil mourn'd the sordid fate | G |
| To that melodious lyre assign'd | Q |
| Beneath a tutor who so late | G |
| With Midas and his rout combin'd | Q |
| By spiteful clamor to confound | R |
| That very lyre's enchanting sound | R |
| Though listening realms admir'd around | R |
| How Horace own'd he thought the fire | S |
| Of his friend Pope's satiric line | T |
| Did farther fuel scarce require | S |
| From such a militant divine | T |
| How Milton scorn'd the sophist vain | A |
| Who durst approach his hallow'd strain | A |
| With unwash'd hands and lips profane | A |
| Then Shakespeare debonnair and mild | U |
| Brought that strange comment forth to view | V |
| Conceits more deep he said and smil'd | U |
| Than his own fools or madmen knew | V |
| But thank'd a generous friend above | N |
| Who did with free adventurous love | N |
| Such pageants from his tomb remove | W |
| And if to Pope in equal need | I |
| The same kind office thou would'st pay | X |
| Then Edwards all the band decreed | I |
| That future bards with frequent lay | X |
| Should call on thy auspicious name | Y |
| From each absurd intruder's claim | Y |
| To keep inviolate their fame | Y |
Mark Akenside
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