Horace, Lib. I, Epist. Ix, Imitated Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDEFGGHH CBIJKK LLKKMMNOPP| To the right honourable Mr Harley | A |
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| Dear Dick how e'er it comes into his head | B |
| Believes as firmly as he does his creed | C |
| That you and I sir are extremely great | D |
| Though I plain Mat you minister of state | D |
| One word from me without all doubt he says | E |
| Would fix his fortune in some little place | F |
| Thus better than myself it seems he knows | G |
| How far my interest with my patron goes | G |
| And answering all objections I can make | H |
| Still plunges deeper in his dear mistake | H |
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| From this wild fancy sir there may proceed | C |
| One wilder yet which I foresee and dread | B |
| That I in fact a real interest have | I |
| Which to my own advantage I would save | J |
| And with the usual courtier's trick intend | K |
| To serve myself forgetful of my friend | K |
| - | |
| To shun this censure I all shame lay by | L |
| And make my reason with his will comply | L |
| Hoping for my excuse 'twill be confest | K |
| That of two evils I have chose the least | K |
| So sir with this epistolary scroll | M |
| Receive the partner of my inmost soul | M |
| Him you will find in letters and in laws | N |
| Not unexpert firm to his country's cause | O |
| Warm in the glorious interest you pursue | P |
| And in one word a good man and a true | P |
Matthew Prior
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