To The Virtuosi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KHKH HLHL FMFB KNKN ONOP KQKQ| Hail 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 urged through 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 |
| Pursued 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 favourite meat | I |
| To nature's filmy people | J |
| Know what conserves they choose to eat | I |
| And what liqueurs 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 amorous flies | K |
| And help them 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 power | H |
| Prevent a mothless land | L |
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| Yet oh however your towering view | F |
| Above gross objects rises | M |
| 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 | N |
| That wrought the death of teasing flies | K |
| But ne'er their propagation | N |
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| Let Flavia's eyes more deeply warm | O |
| Nor thus your hearts determine | N |
| To slight Dame Nature's fairest form | O |
| And sigh for nature's vermin | P |
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| And speak with some respect of beaus | K |
| No more as triflers treat them | Q |
| 'Tis better learn to save one's clothes | K |
| Than cherish moths that eat them | Q |
William Shenstone
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