Poet Philip Freneau

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To A New England Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFFGG DDHHIIJJ CCKLL MMNNOOPPQQRR

Though skilled in Latin and in GreekA
And earning fifty cents a weekA
Such knowledge and the income tooB
Should teach you better what to doB
The meanest drudges kept in payC
Can pocket fifty cents a dayC
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Why stay in such a tasteless landD
Where all must on a level standD
Excepting people at their easeE
Who choose the level where they pleaseE
See Irving gone to Britain's courtF
To people of another sortF
He will return with wealth and fameG
While Yankees hardly know your nameG
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Lo he has kissed a Monarch's handD
Before a prince I see him standD
And with the glittering nobles mixH
Forgetting times of seventy sixH
While you with terror meet the frownI
Of Bank Directors of the townI
The home made nobles of our timesJ
Who hate the bard and spurn his rhymesJ
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Why pause like Irving haste awayC
To England your addresses payC
And England will reward you wellK
Of British feats and British armsL
The maids of honor and their charmsL
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Dear bard I pray you take the hintM
In England what you write and printM
Republished here in shop or stallN
Will perfectly enchant us allN
It will assume a different faceO
And post your name at every placeO
From splendid domes of first degreeP
Where ladies meet to sip their teaP
From marble halls where lawyers pleadQ
Or Congress men talk loud indeedQ
To huts where evening clubs appearR
And 'squires resort to guzzle BeerR

Philip Freneau



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