Epilogue Intended To Have Been Spoken For 'she Stoops To Conquer' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC AD AE AE AF AG AG HII AIIJK AC AL AL ALAACCFD ACC HII MNONOPQ AKKMMFDAA ALLMM IRRRRII ISSP C D SS IMIIIIHHHS SII SMM SS SS SCCSSS'Enter' MRS BULKLEY | A |
'who curtsies very low as beginning to speak | B |
Then enter' MISS CATLEY | A |
'who stands full before her and curtsies to the audience' | C |
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MRS BULKELEY | A |
HOLD Ma'am your pardon What's your business here | D |
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MISS CATLEY | A |
The Epilogue | E |
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MRS BULKLEY | A |
The Epilogue | E |
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MISS CATLEY | A |
Yes the Epilogue my dear | F |
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MRS BULKLEY | A |
Sure you mistake Ma'am The Epilogue 'I' bring it | G |
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MISS CATLEY | A |
Excuse me Ma'am The Author bid 'me' sing it | G |
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'Recitative' | H |
Ye beaux and belles that form this splendid ring | I |
Suspend your conversation while I sing | I |
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MRS BULKLEY | A |
Why sure the girl's beside herself an Epilogue of singing | I |
A hopeful end indeed to such a blest beginning | I |
Besides a singer in a comic set | J |
Excuse me Ma'am I know the etiquette | K |
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MISS CATLEY | A |
What if we leave it to the House | C |
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MRS BULKLEY | A |
The House Agreed | L |
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MISS CATLEY | A |
Agreed | L |
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MRS BULKLEY | A |
And she whose party's largest shall proceed | L |
And first I hope you'll readily agree | A |
I've all the critics and the wits for me | A |
They I am sure will answer my commands | C |
Ye candid judging few hold up your hands | C |
What no return I find too late I fear | F |
That modern judges seldom enter here | D |
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MISS CATLEY | A |
I'm for a different set Old men whose trade is | C |
Still to gallant and dangle with the ladies | C |
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'Recitative' | H |
Who mump their passion and who grimly smiling | I |
Still thus address the fair with voice beguiling | I |
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'Air Cotillon' | M |
Turn my fairest turn if ever | N |
Strephon caught thy ravish'd eye | O |
Pity take on your swain so clever | N |
Who without your aid must die | O |
Yes I shall die hu hu hu hu | P |
Yes I must die ho ho ho ho 'Da capo' | Q |
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MRS BULKLEY | A |
Let all the old pay homage to your merit | K |
Give me the young the gay the men of spirit | K |
Ye travell'd tribe ye macaroni train | M |
Of French friseurs and nosegays justly vain | M |
Who take a trip to Paris once a year | F |
To dress and look like awkward Frenchmen here | D |
Lend me your hands Oh fatal news to tell | A |
Their hands are only lent to the Heinel | A |
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MISS CATLEY | A |
Ay take your travellers travellers indeed | L |
Give me my bonny Scot that travels from the Tweed | L |
Where are the chiels Ah Ah I well discern | M |
The smiling looks of each bewitching bairn | M |
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'Air A bonny young lad is my Jockey' | I |
I'll sing to amuse you by night and by day | R |
And be unco merry when you are but gay | R |
When you with your bagpipes are ready to play | R |
My voice shall be ready to carol away | R |
With Sandy and Sawney and Jockey | I |
With Sawney and Jarvie and Jockey | I |
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MRS BULKLEY | I |
Ye gamesters who so eager in pursuit | S |
Make but of all your fortune one 'va toute' | S |
Ye jockey tribe whose stock of words are few | P |
'I hold the odds Done done with you with you ' | - |
Ye barristers so fluent with grimace | C |
'My Lord your Lordship misconceives the case ' | - |
Doctors who cough and answer every misfortuner | D |
'I wish I'd been called in a little sooner ' | - |
Assist my cause with hands and voices hearty | S |
Come end the contest here and aid my party | S |
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MISS CATLEY | I |
'Air Ballinamony' | M |
Ye brave Irish lads hark away to the crack | I |
Assist me I pray in this woful attack | I |
For sure I don't wrong you you seldom are slack | I |
When the ladies are calling to blush and hang back | I |
For you're always polite and attentive | H |
Still to amuse us inventive | H |
And death is your only preventive | H |
Your hands and your voices for me | S |
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MRS BULKLEY | S |
Well Madam what if after all this sparring | I |
We both agree like friends to end our jarring | I |
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MISS CATLEY | S |
And that our friendship may remain unbroken | M |
What if we leave the Epilogue unspoken | M |
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MRS BULKLEY | S |
Agreed | S |
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MISS CATLEY | S |
Agreed | S |
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MRS BULKLEY | S |
And now with late repentance | C |
Un epilogued the Poet waits his sentence | C |
Condemn the stubborn fool who can't submit | S |
To thrive by flattery though he starves by wit | S |
'Exeunt' | S |
Oliver Goldsmith
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