The Beau To The Virtuosos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KHKH HLML FNFB KOKO POPQ RSTSHail curious wights to whom so fair | A |
The form of mortal flies is | B |
Who deem those grubs beyond compare | A |
Which common sense despises | B |
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Whether o'er hill morass or mound | C |
You make your sportsman sallies | D |
Or that your prey in gardens found | C |
Is urg'd thro' walks and alleys | D |
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Yet in the fury of the chase | E |
No slope could e'er retard you | F |
Blest if one fly repay the race | E |
Or painted wing reward you | F |
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Fierce as Camilla o'er the plain | G |
Pursu'd the glittering stranger | H |
Still ey'd the purple's pleasing stain | G |
And knew not fear nor danger | H |
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'Tis you dispense the fav'rite meat | I |
To nature's filmy people | J |
Know what conserves they choose to eat | I |
And what liquers to tipple | J |
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And if her brood of insects dies | K |
You sage assistance lend her | H |
Can stoop to pimp for am'rous flies | K |
And help 'em to engender | H |
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'Tis you protect their pregnant hour | H |
And when the birth's at hand | L |
Exerting your obstetric pow'r | M |
Prevent a mothless land | L |
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Yet oh howe'er your tow'ring view | F |
Above gross objects rises | N |
Whate'er refinements you pursue | F |
Hear what a friend advises | B |
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A friend who weigh'd with yours must prize | K |
Domitian's idle passion | O |
That wrought the death of teasing flies | K |
But ne'er their propagation | O |
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Let Flavia's eyes more deeply warm | P |
Nor thus your hearts determine | O |
To slight dame Nature's fairest form | P |
And sigh for Nature's vermin | Q |
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And speak with some respect of beaux | R |
No more as triflers treat 'em | S |
'Tis better learn to save one's clothes | T |
Than cherish moths that eat 'em | S |
William Shenstone
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