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Thespis: Act Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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DRAMATIS PERSONAE	A
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GODS	B
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Jupiter Aged Diety	C
Apollo Aged Diety	C
Mars Aged Diety	C
Diana Aged Diety	C
Mercury	D
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THESPIANS	B
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Thespis	B
Sillimon	A
Timidon	A
Tipseion	A
Preposteros	B
Stupidas	B
Sparkeion	A
Nicemis	B
Pretteia	C
Daphne	A
Cymon	A
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ACT II The same Scene with the Ruins Restored	C
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SCENE the same scene as in Act I with the exception that in place	B
of the ruins that filled the foreground of the stage the	E
interior of a magnificent temple is seen showing the background	C
of the scene of Act I through the columns of the portico at the	E
back High throne L U E Low seats below it All the substitute	C
gods and goddesses that is to say Thespians are discovered	C
grouped in picturesque attitudes about the stage eating and	C
drinking and smoking and singing the following verses	B
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CHO Of all symposia	F
The best by half	G
Upon Olympus here await us	B
We eat ambrosia	F
And nectar quaff	G
It cheers but don't inebriate us	B
We know the fallacies	B
Of human food	C
So please to pass Olympian rosy	A
We built up palaces	B
Where ruins stood	C
And find them much more snug and cosy	A
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SILL To work and think my dear	H
Up here would be	A
The height of conscientious folly	A
So eat and drink my dear	H
I like to see	A
Young people gay young people jolly	A
Olympian food my love	G
I'll lay long odds	B
Will please your lips those rosy portals	B
What is the good my love	G
Of being gods	B
If we must work like common mortals	B
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CHO Of all symposia etc	F
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Exeunt all but Nicemis who is dressed as Diana and Pretteia	C
who is dressed as Venus They take Sillimon's arm and bring him	I
down	A
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SILL Bless their little hearts I can refuse them nothing As	B
the Olympian stage manager I ought to be strict with them and	C
make them do their duty but i can't Bless their little hearts	B
when I see the pretty little craft come sailing up to me with a	F
wheedling smile on their pretty little figure heads I can't turn	A
my back on 'em I'm all bow though I'm sure I try to be stern	A
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PRET You certainly are a dear old thing	J
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SILL She says I'm a dear old thing Deputy Venus says I'm a	F
dear old thing	J
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NICE It's her affectionate habit to describe everybody in those	B
terms I am more particular but still even I am bound to admit	C
that you are certainly a very dear old thing	J
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SILL Deputy Venus says I'm a dear old thing and Deputy Diana	F
who is much more particular endorses it Who could be severe	H
with such deputy divinities	B
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PRET Do you know I'm going to ask you a favour	H
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SILL Venus is going to ask me a favour	H
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PRET You see I am Venus	B
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SILL No one who saw your face would doubt it	C
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NICE aside No one who knew her character would	C
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PRET Well Venus you know is married to Mars	B
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SILL To Vulcan my dear to Vulcan The exact connubial relation	A
of the different gods and goddesses is a point on which we must	C
be extremely particular	H
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PRET I beg your pardon Venus is married to Mars	B
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NICE If she isn't married to Mars she ought to be	A
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SILL Then that decides it call it married to Mars	B
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PRET Married to Vulcan or married to Mars what does it signify	G
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SILL My dear it's a matter on which I have no personal feeling	J
whatever	H
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PRET So that she is married to someone	A
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SILL Exactly So that she is married to someone Call it married	C
to Mars	B
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PRET Now here's my difficulty Presumptios takes the place of	G
Mars and Presumptios is my father	H
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SILL Then why object to Vulcan	A
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PRET Because Vulcan is my grandfather	H
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SILL But my dear what an objection You are playing a part	C
till the real gods return That's all Whether you are supposed	C
to be married to your father or your grandfather what does it	C
matter This passion for realism is the curse of the stage	K
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PRET That's all very well but I can't throw myself into a part	C
that has already lasted a twelvemonth when I have to make love	G
to my father It interferes with my conception of the	F
characters It spoils the part	C
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SILL Well well I'll see what can be done Exit Pretteia	C
L U E That's always the way with beginners they've no	A
imaginative power A true artist ought to be superior to such	F
considerations Nicemis comes down R Well Nicemis I should	C
say Diana what's wrong with you Don't you like your part	C
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NICE Oh immensely It's great fun	A
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SILL Don't you find it lonely out by yourself all night	C
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NICE Oh but I'm not alone all night	C
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SILL But I don't want to ask any injudicious questions but who	L
accompanies you	L
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NICE Who Why Sparkeion of course	B
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SILL Sparkeion Well but Sparkeion is Phoebus Apollo enter	H
Sparkeion He's the sun you know	A
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NICE Of course he is I should catch my death of cold in the	F
night air if he didn't accompany me	A
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SPAR My dear Sillimon it would never do for a young lady to be	A
out alone all night It wouldn't be respectable	M
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SILL There's a good deal of truth in that But still the sun	A
at night I don't like the idea The original Diana always went	C
out alone	A
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NICE I hope the original Diana is no rule for me After all	N
what does it matter	H
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SILL To be sure what does it matter	H
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SPAR The sun at night or in the daytime	O
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SILL So that he shines That's all that's necessary Exit	C
Nicemis R U E But poor Daphne what will she say to this	B
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SPAR Oh Daphne can console herself young ladies soon get over	H
this sort of thing Did you never hear of the young lady who was	B
engaged to Cousin Robin	A
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SILL Never	H
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SPAR Then I'll sing it to you	L
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Little maid of Arcadee	C
Sat on Cousin Robin's knee	A
Thought in form and face and limb	I
Nobody could rival him	I
He was brave and she was fair	H
Truth they made a pretty paid	C
Happy little maiden she	A
Happy maid of Arcadee	C
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Moments fled as moments will	P
Happily enough until	P
After say a month or two	L
Robin did as Robins do	L
Weary of his lover's play	A
Jilted her and went away	A
Wretched little maiden she	A
Wretched maid of Arcadee	L
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To her little home she crept	L
There she sat her down and wept	L
Maiden wept as maidens will	P
Grew so thin and pale until	P
Cousin Richard came to woo	L
Then again the roses grew	L
Happy little maiden she	A
Happy maid of Arcadee Exit Sparkeion	A
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SILL Well Mercury my boy you've had a year's experience of us	B
here How do we do it I think we're rather an improvement on the	F
original gods don't you	L
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MER Well you see there's a good deal to be said on both sides	B
of the question you are certainly younger than the original	M
gods and therefore more active On the other hand they are	H
certainly older than you and have therefore more experience	B
On the whole I prefer you because your mistakes amuse me	A
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Olympus is now in a terrible muddle	M
The deputy deities all are at fault	L
They splutter and splash like a pig in a puddle	M
And dickens a one of 'em's earning his salt	L
For Thespis as Jove is a terrible blunder	H
Too nervous and timid too easy and weak	Q
Whenever he's called on to lighten or thunder	H
The thought of it keeps him awake for a week	Q
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Then mighty Mars hasn't the pluck of a parrot	L
When left in the dark he will quiver and quail	R
And Vulcan has arms that would snap like a carrot	L
Before he could drive in a tenpenny nail	R
Then Venus's freckles are very repelling	J
And Venus should not have a quint in her eyes	B
The learned Minerva is weak in her spelling	J
And scatters her h's all over the skies	B
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Then Pluto in kindhearted tenderness erring	J
Can't make up his mind to let anyone die	L
The Times has a paragraph ever recurring	J
Remarkable incidence of longevity	A
On some it has some as a serious onus	B
to others it's quite an advantage in short	L