Epilogue For Mr. Lee Lewes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEFFGGHHIIJKLLM MNNOPEQQRRSTUUCCVELL WWXXYYZZZ| HOLD Prompter hold a word before your nonsense | A |
| I'd speak a word or two to ease my conscience | B |
| My pride forbids it ever should be said | C |
| My heels eclips'd the honours of my head | C |
| That I found humour in a piebald vest | D |
| Or ever thought that jumping was a jest | D |
| 'Takes off his mask ' | E |
| Whence and what art thou visionary birth | F |
| Nature disowns and reason scorns thy mirth | F |
| In thy black aspect every passion sleeps | G |
| The joy that dimples and the woe that weeps | G |
| How has thou fill'd the scene with all thy brood | H |
| Of fools pursuing and of fools pursu'd | H |
| Whose ins and outs no ray of sense discloses | I |
| Whose only plot it is to break our noses | I |
| Whilst from below the trap door Demons rise | J |
| And from above the dangling deities | K |
| And shall I mix in this unhallow'd crew | L |
| May rosined lightning blast me if I do | L |
| No I will act I'll vindicate the stage | M |
| Shakespeare himself shall feel my tragic rage | M |
| Off off vile trappings a new passion reigns | N |
| The madd'ning monarch revels in my veins | N |
| Oh for a Richard's voice to catch the theme | O |
| 'Give me another horse bind up my wounds | P |
| soft 'twas but a dream ' | E |
| Aye 'twas but a dream for now there's no retreating | Q |
| If I cease Harlequin I cease from eating | Q |
| 'Twas thus that Aesop's stag a creature blameless | R |
| Yet something vain like one that shall be nameless | R |
| Once on the margin of a fountain stood | S |
| And cavill'd at his image in the flood | T |
| 'The deuce confound ' he cries 'these drumstick shanks | U |
| They never have my gratitude nor thanks | U |
| They're perfectly disgraceful strike me dead | C |
| But for a head yes yes I have a head | C |
| How piercing is that eye how sleek that brow | V |
| My horns I'm told horns are the fashion now ' | E |
| Whilst thus he spoke astonish'd to his view | L |
| Near and more near the hounds and huntsmen drew | L |
| 'Hoicks hark forward ' came thund'ring from behind | W |
| He bounds aloft outstrips the fleeting wind | W |
| He quits the woods and tries the beaten ways | X |
| He starts he pants he takes the circling maze | X |
| At length his silly head so priz'd before | Y |
| Is taught his former folly to deplore | Y |
| Whilst his strong limbs conspire to set him free | Z |
| And at one bound he saves himself like me | Z |
| 'Taking a hump through the stage door' | Z |
Oliver Goldsmith
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