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An Ode In Time Of Inauguration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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March	A
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Thine aid O Muse I consciously beseech	B
I crave thy succour ask for thine assistance	C
That men may cry Some little ode A peach	B
O Muse grant me the strength to go the distance	C
For odes I learn are dithyrambs and long	D
Exalted feeling dignity of theme	E
And complicated structure guide the song	D
All this from Webster's book of high esteem	E
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Let complicated structures not becloud	F
My lucid lines nor weight with overloading	G
To Shelley Keats and Wordsworth and that crowd	F
I yield the bays for grand and lofty oding	G
Mine but the task to trace a country's growth	H
As evidenced by each innauguration	I
From Washington's to Wilson's primal oath	H
In these U S the celebrated nation	I
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But stay or ever that I start to sing	G
Or e'er I loose my fine poetic forces	J
I ought I think to do the decent thing	G
Ti Wit give credit to my many sources	K
Barnes's Brief History of the U S A	L
Bryce Ridpath Scudder Fiske J B McMaster	M
A book of odes a Webster a Roget	F
The bibliography of this poetaster	M
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Flow flow my pen as gently as sweet Afton ever flowed	F
An thou dost ill shall this be a poor thing but mine ode	F
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G W initial prex	K
Right down in Wall Street New York City	F
Took his first oath Oh multiplex	K
The whimsies quaint the comments witty	F
One might evolve from that I scorn	I
To mock the spot where he was sworn	I
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On next Inauguration Day	F
He took the avouchment sempiternal	N
Way down in Phil a delph i a	L
Where rises now the L H Journal	N
His farewell speech in '	-
Said 'Ware the Trusts and all their tricks	K
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John Adams fell on darksome days	K
March fourth was blustery and sleety	F
The French behaved in horrid ways	K
Until John Jay drew up a treaty	F
Came the Eleventh Amendment too	F
Providing that but why tell you	F
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T Jefferson one history showed	F
Held all display was vain and idle	N
Alone unpanoplied he rode	F
Alone he hitched his horse's bridle	N
No ball that night no carouse	K
But back to Conrad's boarding house	K
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He tied that bridle to the fence	K
The morning of inauguration	I
John Davis saw him do it whence	K
Arose his simple reputation	I
The White House though with Thomas J	F
Had chefs and parties every day	F
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THE MUSE INTERRUPTS THE ODIST	F
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If I were you I think I'd change my medium	O
I'm weary of your meter and your style	N
The sameness of it sickens me to tedium	O
I'll quit unless you switch it for a while	N
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THE ODIST REPLIES	K
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I bow to thee my Muse most eloquent of pleaders	K
But why embarras me in front of all these readers	K
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Madison's inauguration	I
Was a lovely celebration	I
In a suit of wool domestic	G
Rode he stately and majestic	G
Making it be manifest	F
Clothes American are best	F
This has thundered through the ages	K
See our advertising pages	K
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Lightly I pass along and so	K
Come to the terms of James Monroe	K
Who framed the doctrine far too well	N
Known for the odist to retell	N
His period of friendly dealing	G
Began The Era of Good Feeling	G
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John Quincy Adams followed him in Eighteen Twenty Four	M
Election was exciting the details I shall ignore	M
But his inauguration as our country's President	F
Was take it from McMaster some considerable event	F
It was a brilliant function and I think I ought to add	F
The Philadelphia ledger said a gorgeous time was had	F
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Old Andrew Jackson's pair of terms were terribly exciting	G
That stern intrepid warrior had little else than fighting	G
A time of strife and turbulence of politics and flurry	F
But deadly dull for poem themes so Mawruss I should worry	F
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In Washington did Martin Van	I
A stately custom then decree	F
Old Hickory the vetran	I
Must ride with him the people's man	I
For all the world to see	F
A pleasant custom in a way	F
And yet I should have laughed	F
To see the Sage of Oyster Bay	F
On Tuesday ride with Taft	F
Pardon me this	K
Parenthetical halt	F
That sight you'll miss	K
But it isn't my fault	F
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William Henry Harrison came	P
Riding a horse of alabaster	M
But the weather that day was a sin and a shame	P
Take it from me and John McMaster	M
Only a month and Harrison died	F
And V P Tyler began preside	F
A far from popular prex was he	F
And the next one was Polk from Tennessee	F
There were two inaugural balls for him	Q
But the rest of his record is rather dim	Q
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Had I the pen of a Pope or a Thackeray	F
Had I the wisdom of Hegel or Kant	F
Then might I sing as I'd like to of Zachary	F
Then might I sing a Taylorian chant	F
Oh for the lyrical art of a Tennyson	I
Oh for the skill of Macaulay or Burke	G
None of these mine so I give him my benison	I
Turning reluctantly back to my work	G
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O Millard Fillmore when a man refers	K
To thee what direful awful thing occurs	K
Though in name itself thy name have nought of wit	F
Yet and this doth confound me to admit	F
When I do hear it I do smile nay more	M
I laugh I scream I cachinnate I roar	M
As Wearied Business Men do shake with glee	F
At mimes that say Dubuque or Kankakee	F
As basement brows that laugh at New Rochelle	N
As lackwits laugh when actors mention Hell	N
Perhaps it may be so I am not sure	M
Perhaps it is that thou wast so obscure	M
And that one seldom hears a single word of thee	F
I know a lot of girls that never heard of thee	F
Hence did I smile perhaps How very near	M
The careless laughing to the thoughtful tear	M
O Fillmore let me sheathe my mocking pen	I
God rest thee I'll not laugh at thee again	I
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I heard it remarked that to Pierce's election	I
There wasn't a soul had the slightest objection	I
I have also been told by some caustical wit	F
That no one said 'nay' when he wanted to quit	F
Yet Franklin Pierce forgotten man	I
I celebrate your fame	P
I'm doing just the best I can	I
To keep alive your name	P
Though as President F P	F
You didn't do as much for me	F
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Of James Buchanan things a score	M
I might recite I'll say that he was	K
The only White House bachelor	M
The only one that's what J B was	K
For he was a bachelor	M
For he might have been a bigamist	F
A Mormon A polygamist	F
And had thirty wives or more	M
But this be his memorial	N
He was ever unuxorial	N
And he remained a bachelor	M
He re mai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ained a bachelor	M
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Lincoln I falter feeling it to be	F
As if all words of mine in praise of him	Q
Were as the veriest dolt that saw the sun	I
And God had spoken him and said to him	Q
I bid you tell me what you think of it	F
And he should answer Oh the sun is very nice	K
So sadly fitted I to speak in praise	K
Of Lincoln	I
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Now during Andrew Johnson's term the currency grew stable	N
We bought Alaska and we laid the great Atlantic cable	N
And then there came eight years of Grant thereafter four of Hayes	K
And in his time the parties fell on fierce and parlous days	K
And Garfield came and Arthur too And Congress shoes were worn	I
And Brooklyn Bridge was built and I your gifted bard was born	I
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Cleveland and Harrison came along then	I
Followed an era of Cleveland again	I
Came then McKinley and light me a pipe	R
Hey there composing room get some new type	R
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I sing him now as I shall sing him again	I
I sing him now as I have sung before	M
How fluently his name comes off my pen	I
O Theodore	M
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Bless you and keep you T R	M
Energy tireless eternal	N
Fixed and particular star	M
Theodore Teddy the Colonel	N
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Energy tireless eternal	N
Hater of grafters and crooks	K
Theodore Teddy the Colonel	N
Writer and lover of books	K
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Hater of grafters and crooks	K
Forceful adroit and expressive	S
Writer and lover of books	K
Nevertheless a progressive	S
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Forceful adroit and expressive	S
Often asserting the trite	F
Nevertheless a progressive	S
Errant but generally right	F
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Often asserting the trite	F
Stubborn and no one can force you	F
Errant but generally right	F
Yet on the whole I indorse you	F
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Stubborn and no one can force you	F
Fixed and particular star	M
Yet on the whole I indorse you	F
Bless you and keep you T R	M
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It blew it rained it snowed it stormed it froze it hailed it sleeted	F
The day that Wil	N