The Sacrifice To Apollo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDD EEFGHGDD BBBBBBGG IIDJDJDD BBKIKIJJ LLDBDBJJ IIJBJBJJ DDMNBNBB| Priests of APOLLO sacred be the Roome | A |
| For this learn'd Meeting Let no barbarous Groome | A |
| How braue soe'r he bee | B |
| Attempt to enter | C |
| But of the Muses free | B |
| None here may venter | C |
| This for the Delphian Prophets is prepar'd | D |
| The prophane Vulgar are from hence debar'd | D |
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| And since the Feast so happily begins | E |
| Call vp those faire Nine with their Violins | E |
| They are begot by IOVE | F |
| Then let vs place them | G |
| Where no Clowne in may shoue | H |
| That may disgrace them | G |
| But let them neere to young APOLLO sit | D |
| So shall his Foot pace ouer flow with Wit | D |
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| Where be the Graces where be those fayre Three | B |
| In any hand they may not absent bee | B |
| They to the Gods are deare | B |
| And they can humbly | B |
| Teach vs our Selues to beare | B |
| And doe things comely | B |
| They and the Muses rise both from one Stem | G |
| They grace the Muses and the Muses them | G |
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| Bring forth your Flaggons fill'd with sparkling Wine | I |
| Whereon swolne BACCHVS crowned with a Vine | I |
| Is grauen and fill out | D |
| It well bestowing | J |
| To eu'ry Man about | D |
| In Goblets flowing | J |
| Let not a Man drinke but in Draughts profound | D |
| To our God PHOEBVS let the Health goe Round | D |
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| Let your Iests flye at large yet therewithall | B |
| See they be Salt but yet not mix'd with Gall | B |
| Not tending to disgrace | K |
| But fayrely giuen | I |
| Becomming well the place | K |
| Modest and euen | I |
| That they with tickling Pleasure may prouoke | J |
| Laughter in him on whom the Iest is broke | J |
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| Or if the deeds of HEROES ye rehearse | L |
| Let them be sung in so well ord'red Verse | L |
| That each word haue his weight | D |
| Yet runne with pleasure | B |
| Holding one stately height | D |
| In so braue measure | B |
| That they may make the stiffest Storme seeme weake | J |
| And dampe IOVES Thunder when it lowd'st doth speake | J |
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| And if yee list to exercise your Vayne | I |
| Or in the Sock or in the Buskin'd Strayne | I |
| Let Art and Nature goe | J |
| One with the other | B |
| Yet so that Art may show | J |
| Nature her Mother | B |
| The thick brayn'd Audience liuely to awake | J |
| Till with shrill Claps the Theater doe shake | J |
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| Sing Hymnes to BACCHVS then with hands vprear'd | D |
| Offer to IOVE who most is to be fear'd | D |
| From him the Muse we haue | M |
| From him proceedeth | N |
| More then we dare to craue | B |
| 'Tis he that feedeth | N |
| Them whom the World would starue then let the Lyre | B |
| Sound whilst his Altars endlesse flames expire | B |
Michael Drayton
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