Richard Savage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHII JJKKLLMMNNOOPPQQRRSS TT UUVWXXYY| By J M Barrie and H B Marriott Watson Criterion Theatre April | A |
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| To other boards for pun and song and dance | B |
| Our purpose is an essay in romance | B |
| An old world story where such old world facts | C |
| As hate and love and death through four swift acts | C |
| Not without gleams and glances hints and cues | D |
| From the dear bright eyes of the Comic Muse | D |
| So shine and sound that as we fondly deem | E |
| They may persuade you to accept our dream | E |
| Our own invention mainly though we take | F |
| Somewhat for art but most for interest's sake | F |
| One for our hero who goes wandering still | G |
| In the long shadow of PARNASSUS HILL | G |
| Scarce within eyeshot but his tragic shade | H |
| Compels that recognition due be made | H |
| When he comes knocking at the student's door | I |
| Something as poet if as blackguard more | I |
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| Poet and blackguard Of the first how much | J |
| As to the second in quite perfect touch | J |
| With folly and sorrow even shame and crime | K |
| He lived the grief and wonder of his time | K |
| Marked for reproaches from his life's beginning | L |
| Extremely sinned against as well as sinning | L |
| Hack spendthrift starveling duellist in turn | M |
| Too cross to cherish yet too fierce to spurn | M |
| Begrimed with ink or brave with wine and blood | N |
| Spirit of fire and manikin of mud | N |
| Now shining clear now fain to starve and skulk | O |
| Star of the cellar pensioner of the bulk | O |
| At once the child of passion and the slave | P |
| Brawling his way to an unhonoured grave | P |
| That was DICK SAVAGE Yet ere his ghost we raise | Q |
| For these more decent and less desperate days | Q |
| It may be well and seemly to reflect | R |
| That howbeit of so prodigal a sect | R |
| Since it was his to call until the end | S |
| Our greatest wisest Englishman his friend | S |
| 'Twere all too fatuous if we cursed and scorned | T |
| The strange wild creature JOHNSON loved and mourned | T |
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| Nature is but the oyster Art's the pearl | U |
| Our DICK is neither sycophant nor churl | U |
| Not as he was but as he might have been | V |
| Had the Unkind Gods been poets of the scene | W |
| Fired with our fancy shaped and tricked anew | X |
| To touch your hearts with love your eyes with rue | X |
| He stands or falls ere he these boards depart | Y |
| Not as dead Nature but as living Art | Y |
William Ernest Henley
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