An Address To Shakespeare Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFGHHGFGGIIFG GJGKJGGLLGFMM| Immortal William Shakespeare there's none can you excel | A |
| You have drawn out your characters remarkably well | A |
| Which is delightful for to see enacted upon the stage | B |
| For instance the love sick Romeo or Othello in a rage | B |
| His writings are a treasure which the world cannot repay | C |
| He was the greatest poet of the past or of the present day | C |
| Also the greatest dramatist and is worthy of the name | D |
| I'm afraid the world shall never look upon his like again | E |
| His tragedy of Hamlet is moral and sublime | F |
| And for purity of langucge nothing can be more fine | G |
| For instance to hear the fair Ophelia making her moan | H |
| At her father's grave sad and alone | H |
| In his beautiful play As You Like If one passage is very fine | G |
| Just for instance in fhe forest of Arden the language is sublime | F |
| Where Orlando speaks of his Rosilind most lovely and divine | G |
| And no other poet I am sure has written anything more fine | G |
| His language is spoken in the Church and by the Advocate at the bar | I |
| Here and there and everywhere throughout the world afar | I |
| His writings abound with gospel truths moral and sublime | F |
| And I'm sure in my opinion they are surpassing fine | G |
| In his beautiful tragedy of Othello one passage is very fine | G |
| Just for instance where Cassio looses his lieutenancy | J |
| By drinking too much wine | G |
| And in grief he exclaims Oh that men should put an | K |
| Enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains | J |
| In his great tragedy of Richard the III one passage is very fine | G |
| Where the Duchess of York invokes the aid of the Divine | G |
| For to protect her innocent babes from the murderer's uplifted hand | L |
| And smite him powerless and save her babes I'm sure 'tie really grand | L |
| Immortal Bard of Avon your writings are divine | G |
| And will live in the memories of you admirers until the end of time | F |
| Your plays are read in family ciFcles with wonder and delight | M |
| While seated around the fireside on a cold winter's night | M |
William Topaz Mcgonagall
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