Written In The Beginning Of Mezeray's History Of France Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DEAFGA HIJGGJ KAGALG| Whate'er thy countrymen have done | A |
| By law and wit by sword and gun | A |
| In thee is faithfully recited | B |
| And all the living world that view | C |
| Thy work give thee the praises due | C |
| At once instructed and delighted | B |
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| Yet for the fame of all these deeds | D |
| What beggar in the invalids | E |
| With lameness broke with blindness smitten | A |
| Wish'd ever decently to die | F |
| To have been either Mezeray | G |
| Or any Monarch he has written | A |
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| It's strange dear Author yet it true is | H |
| That down from Pharamond to Louis | I |
| All covet life yet call it pain | J |
| And feel the ill yet shun the cure | G |
| Can sense this paradox endure | G |
| Resolve me Cambray or Fontaine | J |
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| The man in graver tragic known | K |
| Though his best part long since was done | A |
| Still on the stage desires to tarry | G |
| And he who play'd the Harlequin | A |
| After the jest still loads the scene | L |
| Unwilling to retire though weary | G |
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