Blue And Buff Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEEDDFF GGHHIIJJDD DDKKDDLLDDJMIN ODDDAAOOAAMMKK PQOO DDDDDDRRDD| Come sportive Muse with plume satiric | A |
| Describe each lawless bold empiric | A |
| Who with the Blue and Buffs' sad crew | B |
| Now stripp'd in buff shall look so blue | B |
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| First paint L d H w k boisterous rough | C |
| Dealer in wholesale quack'ry stuff | C |
| Who far beyond famed Katterfelt | D |
| Prescribed what ne'er was seen or felt | D |
| Left Law and Reason in the lurch | E |
| To mould the Senate twist the Church | E |
| But wand'ring once from Downing street | D |
| Great Buckingham's old dome to greet | D |
| With grand Catholiconian pill | F |
| Was lost on Constitution hill | F |
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| Next W dh m metaphysic elf | G |
| Who all things knows except himself | G |
| Three tedious hours who raves and talks | H |
| Of all that in his cranium stalks | H |
| Whose regular ideas fear | I |
| Militia much more Volunteer | I |
| A wild inapplicable genius | J |
| Scarce versed in policy's qu genus | J |
| In syntax yet more scantly read | D |
| Without one concord in his head | D |
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| Now Muse direct the shaft of wit | D |
| Where little P tty apes great Pitt | D |
| This year in woe begone oration | K |
| To Britons paints a bankrupt nation | K |
| Resources all dilapidate | D |
| Taxation at extremest fate | D |
| Whilst next this little great small man | L |
| Heigh presto pass by one bold plan | L |
| Restores you all to peace and plenty | D |
| The deuce is in't won't this content ye | D |
| With necromantic rod of Moses | J |
| A twig cut from a bush of roses | M |
| To ease at once your ev'ry fear | I |
| Turns bear to bull and bull to bear | N |
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| Nor miss dear Muse to gild my tale | O |
| The gallant E rl of L d e | D |
| Who late to Paris post was sent to | D |
| Become the dupe of Benevento | D |
| Hush'd to soft sleep like Baby Bunting | A |
| Whilst Fap the Great went out a hunting | A |
| Or was it say thou bonny chiel | O |
| Thy ardent love for Britain's weal | O |
| That led thy steps a peep to take | A |
| At thy great territorial stake | A |
| The purchase of thine assignats | M |
| Thy Corso Gallican contrats | M |
| At once th' opprobrium and solution | K |
| Of all thy love for revolution | K |
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| The Muse recoils as something shock'd her | P |
| To charge with harm the harmless D ct r | Q |
| When una voce all allow | O |
| He would do right if he knew how | O |
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| But if amongst this motely crew | D |
| One man of real parts we view | D |
| With mind for highest station fit | D |
| The colleague friend yet foe of Pitt | D |
| He to whose merits all men granted | D |
| That Pitt's last list one great name wanted | D |
| He who with every talent shone | R |
| Except consistency alone | R |
| We smile if such a man there be | D |
| But weep if Grenville should be he | D |
George Canning
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