Epigram To A Hypocritical Calvinist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE G HI JFJFFFFF| By faith alone you say not works | A |
| Man must obtain salvation | B |
| If you are saved the doctrine needs | C |
| No better confirmation | B |
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| My Lady Sceptical for want of proof | D |
| What all believe denies | E |
| Yet she believes what all with proof deny | F |
| That she is wondrous wise | E |
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| 'The dullest ass may write | G |
| In verse that jingling stuff ' | - |
| Indeed Sir have you tried | H |
| 'I have ' That's proof enough | I |
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| Yon fop has strangely got it in his noddle | J |
| That he excels in tragic declamation | F |
| Kemble's the favourite and the model | J |
| That claims his praise and prompts his imitation | F |
| Now that the praise is just none can deny | F |
| But the imitation gives that praise the lie | F |
| Decide ye Critics for 'tis hard to know | F |
| Is he to Kemble's fame a friend or foe | F |
Thomas Oldham
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