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COUPLET ON SHAKESPEAR'S MONUMENT (1) by ALEXANDER POPE

Poet Analysis

First Line: AFTER A HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS' NAP
Last Line: ENTER SHAKESPEAR, WITH A LOUD CLAP.
Subject(s): DRAMATISTS; PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS; POETRY & POETS; SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616);
After an hundred and thirty years' nap,
Enter Shakespear, with a loud clap.



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