On The Irish Club. [1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCCDDEFGHIJKKAA KKAALMNNAO| Ye paltry underlings of state | A |
| Ye senators who love to prate | A |
| Ye rascals of inferior note | A |
| Who for a dinner sell a vote | A |
| Ye pack of pensionary peers | B |
| Whose fingers itch for poets' ears | B |
| Ye bishops far removed from saints | C |
| Why all this rage Why these complaints | C |
| Why against printers all this noise | D |
| This summoning of blackguard boys | D |
| Why so sagacious in your guesses | E |
| Your effs and tees and arrs and esses | F |
| Take my advice to make you safe | G |
| I know a shorter way by half | H |
| The point is plain remove the cause | I |
| Defend your liberties and laws | J |
| Be sometimes to your country true | K |
| Have once the public good in view | K |
| Bravely despise champagne at court | A |
| And choose to dine at home with port | A |
| Let prelates by their good behaviour | K |
| Convince us they believe a Saviour | K |
| Nor sell what they so dearly bought | A |
| This country now their own for nought | A |
| Ne'er did a true satiric muse | L |
| Virtue or innocence abuse | M |
| And 'tis against poetic rules | N |
| To rail at men by nature fools | N |
| But | A |
| O |
Jonathan Swift
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