All The Talents Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCC DDEE FGFHH ADIJJ KKH| When the broad bottom | A |
| 'd Junto with reason at strife | B |
| Resign'd with a sigh its political life | B |
| When converted to Rome and of honesty tired | C |
| They gave back to the Devil the soul he inspired | C |
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| The Demon of Faction that over them hung | D |
| In accents of horror their epitaph sung | D |
| While Pride and Venality join'd in the stave | E |
| And canting Democracy wept at the grave | E |
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| 'Here lies in the tomb that we hollow'd for Pitt | F |
| 'Consistence | G |
| of Grenville of Temple the wit | F |
| 'Of Sidmouth the firmness the temper of Grey | H |
| 'And Treasurer Sheridan's promise to pay | H |
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| 'Here Petty's finance from the evils to come | A |
| 'With Fitzpatrick' | D |
| s sobriety creeps to the tomb | I |
| 'And Chancellor Ego now left in the lurch | J |
| 'Neither dines with the Jordan nor whines for the church | J |
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| 'Then huzza for the Party that here is at rest | K |
| 'By the fools of a faction regretted and blest | K |
| 'Though they sleep with the Devil yet theirs is the 'hope | H |
| 'On the downfall of Britain to rise with the Pope ' | - |
George Canning
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