The Secretary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHIJJKKLL MMNOPQNP| While with labour assiduous due pleasure I mix | A |
| And in one day atone for the business of six | A |
| In a little Dutch chaise on a Saturday night | B |
| On my left hand my Horace a W on my right | B |
| No memoirs to compose and no postboy to move | C |
| That on Sunday may hinder the softness of love | D |
| For her neither visits nor parties at tea | E |
| Nor the long winded cant of a dull refugee | E |
| This night and the next shall be here shall be mine | F |
| To good or ill fortune the third we resign | F |
| Thus scorning the world and superior to fate | G |
| I drive on my car in processional state | G |
| So with Phia through Athens Pisistratus rode | H |
| Men thought her Minerva and him a new god | I |
| But why should I stories of Athens rehearse | J |
| Where people knew love and were partial to verse | J |
| Since none can with justice my pleasure oppose | K |
| In Holland half drown'd in interest and prose | K |
| By Greece and past ages what need I be tried | L |
| When the Hague and the present are both on my side | L |
| And is it enough for the joys of the day | M |
| To think what Anacreon or Sappho would say | M |
| When good Vendergoes and his provident Vrow | N |
| As they gaze on my triumph do freely allow | O |
| That search all the province you'll find no man dar is | P |
| So bless'd as the | Q |
| English heer Secretar' | N |
| is | P |
Matthew Prior
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