Satyr V. Verse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCDDEEFGG HHIIHHDDJJJIIJJKLLL IIIIIIIIIIHMHHHNN OPHQHRSIIITT UPHHHSSCCCNNVWIIXXHH

Thou soft Engager of my tender yearsA
Divertive verse now come ease my caresB
The Rake has wine the aged knave ye viewC
Of what his death bed Charity will doC
to lay his cares mine are layd by youC
You give my mind when I unbend reliefD
Raise ev'ry Joy lessen ev'ry griefD
Nor do I onely these thy comforts findE
thy comforts are diffusive to mankindE
The men of sense of buisness or of whimsF
half witts or lovers ev'ry one sometimesG
Will toy away a vacant hour in rimesG
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they give all but lovers troubles easeH
the Muses fires the flames of love encreaseH
Yet the fond fooles write more yn all ye restI
as if they studyd to be more unblestI
of Moving things they speak in moving strainsH
moan beg a cure of all their painsH
till at the last theyre workd to a beliefD
that what they said has been their reall griefD
As strong as fate they call the chains they wearJ
To starrs Angells ev'ry nymph compareJ
Then think their chains as strong their nymphs as fairJ
thus our loves more more the womens prideI
so the wounds deeper the cure denydI
Long may you gentle souls your fetters wearJ
if still you write upon ye pangs you bearJ
Yet know that writing makes them more severeK
If Celia or Aminta scornfull growL
On the great praises which your lines bestowL
Long may you feel them since you make ym soL
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Verse is on other subjects less unkindI
with its transports brightens up ye mindI
the Drunkards catch is half the rogues delightI
Where noise briskness do their charms uniteI
The drawers calld ink paper broughtI
so extempore the work is wroughtI
While wine inspires they never stay for thoughtI
the Jolly words are roard in tunefull soundI
While the full bottles run the tables roundI
Ecchoes from the Empty ones reboundI
Raisd to the Joyes above the cares of kingsH
their singing makes ym drink their drinking singM
O happy men if twere not for the curseH
of qualms repentance an empty purseH
but happy men at least for some few hoursH
Who force the Muse to nothing else but rimeN
when your sense is drownd sing off yr timeN
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Verse has another powr on other menO
When the vexd thoughts by writing grow sereneP
full of the spleen rage scorn to seeH
the tide of vice folly run so highQ
some from the world retire to poetryH
when their pens what grieves their bosoms speakR
how honesty's a cully witt a rakeS
fair Virtue beggerd beauty grown a baudI
Religion made a masque gold a GodI
their breasts find ease by laying down their loadI
so Prophetts usd inspird of old to swellT
when they spoke their Oracles grew wellT
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For me who never have a drinker beenU
Nor provd the witty forces of the spleenP
for me who be it chance or carelessnessH
forgive me half the world when I confessH
have never been in love in all my dayesH
On other principles my pen I takeS
for meer disintrested diversions sakeS
I onely write as many lovers wooC
but just when I have nothing else to doC
then to please my self as well as youC
I seek no praise keep me safe from shameN
Not known to many unknown to fameN
I woud not blunty rail a folly downV
Nor with undecent rage on vices runW
Our master Horace wisely sung of oldI
that satyrs better if it Jear then scoldI
the Gall too much prevailing spoils the inkX
Nor woul I frett mankind but make ym thinkX
tis farr more human thus to show ye placeH
Where you ly open then throw in ye passH

Thomas Parnell



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