Satyr Iv. The Pretty Gentleman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBBCCCDDEEBBFF GGBBHHBBGGIIJ KLGGBBMBNONPPQRSSSGG GGGBBSSSGGBBTTT UUBBB| Where Creditors their bankrupt debtors stow | A |
| Where men for want of coin to durance go | A |
| are for being wretched made more so | A |
| Where poor W G could months abide | B |
| When all his creditt would not him provide | B |
| with one nights lodging any where beside | B |
| there on a bed by moths half eat away | C |
| Damon ye witt ye generous ye gay | C |
| the heir of Eighteen hundred sterling lay | C |
| Sullen with grief impatient to endure | D |
| yet oppressd with what he could not cure | D |
| Long did his thoughts upon his Sorrows dwell | E |
| then they on generall reflections fell | E |
| for still the mind by private ills aggrievd | B |
| Is by the thought of common ills relieved | B |
| this soths ye spleen while that creates dispair | F |
| One you ingross in 'tother others share | F |
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| Alass he crys how many have I known | G |
| by giddy pleasures ymselves undon | G |
| We hunt for happiness on eager speed | B |
| have a chance that we may all succeed | B |
| reason passion draw ye diffrent views | H |
| we're all blessd according as we chuse | H |
| but to our reason seldom we attend | B |
| tho' all our hopes upon that choice depend | B |
| see ye degrees thou heedless creature man | G |
| by which the passions on ye mind obtain | G |
| as in ye pretty Gentleman suppose | I |
| for instance how in him yr empire grows | I |
| up from his swadling to his beauish clothes | J |
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| Scarce can his tongue in tripping accents rove | K |
| but the nurse lulls him wth wild tales of love | L |
| Where a kings son as many such have been | G |
| dyes for ye youngest daughter of a queen | G |
| these mold his temper till he learns to read | B |
| then romantick authors fill his head | B |
| Where honour in enamelld armour bleeds | M |
| for love thats errant on ye milk white steed | B |
| how his eyes dance when magick Castles fly | N |
| When beautyes freed how pants his heart for Joy | O |
| how much what ere he reads he longs to try | N |
| When he can Nature more distinctly see | P |
| he finds such things as these coud never be | P |
| Yet still the prejudice is on his Soul | Q |
| love honour must his actions rule | R |
| then that he may their due proportions trace | S |
| playes following nature he will follow playes | S |
| at these he dresses talkes fightes loves from these | S |
| he railes at buisness wch he does not know | G |
| because ye poett who had none did so | G |
| In wine whores games his guinnys run | G |
| because the like in such a part is don | G |
| thats drawn with art to please ye lookers on | G |
| to repeat verse with a grace be leud | B |
| is gay is Dorimant must be good | B |
| But when his fullgrown witt a figure makes | S |
| Without a guide agreably he rakes | S |
| Nor the stage longer for a pattern takes | S |
| himself a mode a man of airs a beau | G |
| Nay poet too as far as songs will go | G |
| thus with a world of pains the work is past | B |
| he's an entertaining fool at last | B |
| he does the men of buisness pitty move | T |
| the men of Moralls soberly reprove | T |
| the tradesmen cheat him but the Ladies love | T |
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| As on this head he woud have spoken more | U |
| the Jailour happend to unlock the door | U |
| to lett him know his creditors did wait | B |
| to make him sell if he woud freedom gett | B |
| At least three quarters of his whole estate | B |
Thomas Parnell
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