New Morality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBAACCDDAA EEFFGGHHII JKLL EECIAA DDIIMMII NNAAOOIIPPAA NNIIQQIIRRAAIIII AAIIAASSAA TNLLAAII AAIIIIII SSII NNIIUUVVWWXXQQ FFXXIIIIKKYYUUZZXXXD DA2B2NN C2C2KKIILLRRD2D2IIII II FFIIAAAAAA AAE2IIIN| From mental mists to purge a nation's eyes | A |
| To animate the weak unite the wise | A |
| To trace the deep infection that prevades | A |
| The crowded town and taints the rural shades | A |
| To mark how wide extends the mighty waste | B |
| O'er the fair realms of Science Learning Taste | B |
| To drive and scatter all the brood of lies | A |
| And chase the varying falsehood as it flies | A |
| The long arrears of ridicule to pay | C |
| To drag reluctant Dulness back to day | C |
| Much yet remains To you these themes belong | D |
| Ye favor'd sons of virtue and of song | D |
| Say is the field too narrow Are the times | A |
| Barren of folly and devoid of crimes | A |
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| Yet venial vices in a milder age | E |
| Could rouse the warmth of Pope's satiric rage | E |
| The doting miser and the lavish heir | F |
| The follies and the foibles of the fair | F |
| Sir Job Sir Balaam and old Euclio's thrift | G |
| And Sappho's diamonds with her dirty shift | G |
| Blunt Charteris Hopkins meaner subjects fired | H |
| The keen eyed Poet while the Muse inspired | H |
| Her ardent child entwining as he sate | I |
| His laurell'd chaplet with the thorns of hate | I |
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| But say indignant does the Muse retire | J |
| Her shrine deserted and extinct its fire | K |
| No pious hand to feed the sacred flame | L |
| No raptured soul a Poet's charge to claim | L |
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| Bethink thee Gifford when some future age | E |
| Shall trace the promise of thy playful page | E |
| quot The hand which brush'd a swarm of fools away | C |
| quot Should rouse to grasp a more reluctant prey quot | I |
| Think then will pleaded indolence excuse | A |
| The tame secession of thy languid Muse | A |
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| Ah where is now that promise Why so long | D |
| Sleep the keen shafts of satire and of song | D |
| Oh come with Taste and Virtue at thy side | I |
| With ardent zeal inflamed and patriot pride | I |
| With keen poetic glance direct the blow | M |
| And empty all thy quiver on the foe | M |
| No pause no rest till weltering on the ground | I |
| The poisonous hydra lies and pierced with many a wound | I |
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| Thou too the nameless Bard whose honest zeal | N |
| For law for morals for the public weal | N |
| Pours down impetuous on thy country's foes | A |
| The stream of verse and many languaged prose | A |
| Thou too though oft thy ill advised dislike | O |
| The guiltless head with random censure strike | O |
| Though quaint allusions vague and undefined | I |
| Play faintly round the ear but mock the mind | I |
| Through the mix'd mass yet taste and learning shine | P |
| And manly vigour stamps the nervous line | P |
| And patriot warmth the generous rage inspires | A |
| And wakes and points the desultory fires | A |
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| Yet more remain unknown for who can tell | N |
| What bashful genius in some rural cell | N |
| As year to year and day succeeds to day | I |
| In joyless leisure wastes his life away | I |
| In him the flame of early fancy shone | Q |
| His genuine worth his old companions own | Q |
| In childhood and in youth their chief confess'd | I |
| His master's pride his pattern to the rest | I |
| Now far aloof retiring from the strife | R |
| Of busy talents and of active life | R |
| As from the loop holes of retreat he views | A |
| Our stage verse pamphlets politics and news | A |
| He loathes the world or with reflection sad | I |
| Concludes it irrecoverably mad | I |
| Of taste of learning morals all bereft | I |
| No hope no prospect to redeem it left | I |
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| Awake for shame or ere thy nobler sense | A |
| Sink in the oblivious pool of indolence | A |
| Must wit be found alone on falsehood's side | I |
| Unknown to truth to virtue unallied | I |
| Arise nor scorn thy country's just alarms | A |
| Wield in her cause thy long neglected arms | A |
| Of lofty satire pour the indignant strain | S |
| Leagued with her friends and ardent to maintain | S |
| 'Gainst Learning's Virtue's Truth's Religion's foes | A |
| A kingdom's safety and the world's repose | A |
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| If Vice appal thee if thou view with awe | T |
| Insults that brave and crimes that 'scape the law | N |
| Yet may the specious bastard brood which claim | L |
| A spurious homage under Virtue's name | L |
| Sprung from that parent of ten thousand crimes | A |
| The new Philosophy of modern times | A |
| Yet these may rouse thee With unsparing hand | I |
| Oh lash the vile impostors from the land | I |
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| First stern Philanthropy not she who dries | A |
| The orphan's tears and wipes the widow's eyes | A |
| Not she who sainted Charity her guide | I |
| Of British bounty pours the annual tide | I |
| But French Philanthropy whose boundless mind | I |
| Glows with the general love of all mankind | I |
| Philanthropy beneath whose baneful sway | I |
| Each patriot passion sinks and dies away | I |
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| Taught in her school t'imbibe thy mawkish strain | S |
| Condorcet filter'd through the dregs of Paine | S |
| Each pert adept disowns a Briton's part | I |
| And plucks the name of England from his heart | I |
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| What shall a name a word a sound controul | N |
| The aspiring thought and cramp the expansive soul | N |
| Shall one half peopled Island's rocky round | I |
| A love that glows for all Creation bound | I |
| And social charities contract the plan | U |
| Framed for thy Freedom universal man | U |
| No through the extended globe his feelings run | V |
| As broad and general as the unbounded sun | V |
| No narrow bigot he his reason'd view | W |
| Thy interests England rank with thine Peru | W |
| France at our doors he sees no danger nigh | X |
| But heaves for Turkey's woes the impartial sigh | X |
| A steady Patriot of the World alone | Q |
| The Friend of every Country but his own | Q |
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| Next comes a gentler Virtue Ah beware | F |
| Lest the harsh verse her shrinking softness scare | F |
| Visit her not too roughly the warm sigh | X |
| Breathes on her lips the tear drop gems her eye | X |
| Sweet Sensibility who dwells enshrined | I |
| In the fine foldings of the feeling mind | I |
| With delicate Mimosa's sense endued | I |
| Who shrinks instinctive from a hand too rude | I |
| Or like the Anagallis prescient flower | K |
| Shuts her soft petals at the approaching shower | K |
| Sweet child of sickly Fancy her of yore | Y |
| From her loved France Rousseau to exile bore | Y |
| And while midst lakes and mountains wild he ran | U |
| Full of himself and shunn'd the haunts of man | U |
| Taught her o'er each lone vale and alpine steep | Z |
| To lisp the story of his wrongs and weep | Z |
| Taught her to cherish still in either eye | X |
| Of tender tears a plentiful supply | X |
| And pour them in her brooks that babbled by | X |
| Taught by nice scale to meet her feelings strong | D |
| False by degrees and exquisitely wrong | D |
| For the crush'd beetle first the widow'd dove | A2 |
| And all the warbled sorrows of the grove | B2 |
| Next for poor suffering guilt and last of all | N |
| For Parents Friends a king and Country's fall | N |
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| Mark her fair votaries prodigal of grief | C2 |
| With cureless pangs and woes that mock relief | C2 |
| Droop in soft sorrow o'er a faded flower | K |
| O'er a dead jack ass pour the pearly shower | K |
| But hear unmoved of Loire's ensanguined flood | I |
| Choked up with slain of Lyons drench'd in blood | I |
| Of crimes that blot the age the world with shame | L |
| Foul crimes but sicklied o'er with Freedom's name | L |
| Altars and thrones subverted social life | R |
| Trampled to earth the husband from the wife | R |
| Parent from child with ruthless fury torn | D2 |
| Of talents honour virtue wit forlorn | D2 |
| In friendless exile of the wise and good | I |
| Staining the daily scaffold with their blood | I |
| Of savage cruelties that scare the mind | I |
| The rage of madness with hell's lust combin'd | I |
| Of hearts torn reeking from the mangled breast | I |
| They hear and hope that all is for the best | I |
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| Fond hope but Justice sanctifies the prayer | F |
| Justice here Satire strike 'twere sin to spare | F |
| Not she in British Courts that takes her stand | I |
| The dawdling balance dangling in her hand | I |
| Adjusting punishments to fraud and vice | A |
| With srupulous quirks and disquisition nice | A |
| But firm erect with keen reverted glance | A |
| The avenging angel of regenerate France | A |
| Who visits ancient sins on modern times | A |
| And punishes the Pope for C sar's crimes | A |
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| Such is the liberal Justice which presides | A |
| In these our days and modern patriot's guides | A |
| Justice whose blood stain'd book one sole decree | E2 |
| One statute fills quot The People shall be free quot | I |
| Free by what means by folly madness guilt | I |
| By bounteous rapines blood in oceans spilt | I |
| By confiscation in whose sweeping toil | N |
George Canning
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