Stinkomalee Triumphans Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABB ABAAAB ABAAAB ABAAAB ABAAB ABAAB ABAAAB ABAAAB ABAAAB ABAAAB ABAAAB ABAAAAB ABAAAB ABAAAB ABACABB D CAB| WHENE'ER with pitying eye I view | A |
| Each operative sot in town | B |
| I smile to think how wondrous few | A |
| Get drunk who study at the U | A |
| niversity we've Got in town | B |
| niversity we've Got in town | B |
| - | |
| What precious fools 'The People' grew | A |
| Their alma mater not in town | B |
| The 'useful classes' hardly knew | A |
| Four was composed of two and two | A |
| Until they learned it at the U | A |
| niversity we've Got in town | B |
| - | |
| But now they're taught by JOSEPH HU | A |
| ME by far the cleverest Scot in town | B |
| Their items and their tottles too | A |
| Each may dissect his sister Sue | A |
| From his instructions at the U | A |
| niversity we've Got in town | B |
| - | |
| Then L E comes like him how few | A |
| Can caper and can trot in town | B |
| In pirouette or pas de deux | A |
| He beats the famed Monsieur Giroux | A |
| And teaches dancing at the U | A |
| niversity we've Got in town | B |
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| And GILCHRIST see that great Gentoo | A |
| Professor has a lot in town | B |
| of Cockney boys who fag Hindoo | A |
| And larn Jem nasties at the U | A |
| niversity we've Got in town | B |
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| SAM R corpse of vampire hue | A |
| Comes from its grave to rot in town | B |
| For Bays the dead bard's crowned with Yew | A |
| And chaunts the Pleasures of the U | A |
| niversity we've Got in town | B |
| - | |
| FRANK JEFFREY of the Scotch Review | A |
| Whom MOORE had nearly shot in town | B |
| Now with his pamphlet stitched in blue | A |
| And yellow d ns the other two | A |
| But lauds the ever glorious U | A |
| niversity we've Got in town | B |
| - | |
| Great BIRKBECK king of chips and glue | A |
| Who paper oft does blot in town | B |
| From the Mechanics' Institu | A |
| tion comes to prate of wedge and screw | A |
| Lever and axle at the U | A |
| niversity we've Got in town | B |
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| LORD WAITHMAN who long since withdrew | A |
| From Mansion House to cot in town | B |
| Adorn'd with chair of ormolu | A |
| All darkly grand like Prince Lee Boo | A |
| Lectures on Free Trade at the U | A |
| niversity we've Got in town | B |
| - | |
| Fat F with his coat of blue | A |
| Who speeches makes so hot in town | B |
| In rhetoric spells his lectures through | A |
| And sounds the V for W | A |
| The vay they speaks it at the U | A |
| niversity we've Got in town | B |
| - | |
| Then H e comes who late at New | A |
| gate market sweetest spot in town | B |
| Instead of one clerk popped in two | A |
| To make a place for his nephew | A |
| Seeking another at the U | A |
| niversity we've Got in town | B |
| - | |
| There's Captain Ross a traveller true | A |
| Has just presented what in town | B |
| 's an article of great virtu | A |
| The telescope he once peep'd through | A |
| And 'spied an Esquimaux canoe | A |
| On Croker Mountains to the U | A |
| niversity we've Got in town | B |
| - | |
| Since MICHAEL gives no roast nor stew | A |
| Where Whigs might eat and plot in town | B |
| And swill his port and mischief brew | A |
| Poor CREEVY sips his water gru | A |
| el as the beadle of the U | A |
| niversity we've Got in town | B |
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| There's JERRY BENTHAM and his crew | A |
| Names ne'er to be forgot in town | B |
| In swarms like Banquo's long is sue | A |
| Turk Papist Infidel and Jew | A |
| Come trooping on to join the U | A |
| niversity we've Got in town | B |
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| To crown the whole with triple queue | A |
| Another such there's not in town | B |
| twitching his restless nose askew | A |
| Behold tremendous HARRY BROUGH | C |
| AM Law Professor at the U | A |
| niversity we've Got in town | B |
| niversity we've Got in town | B |
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| GRAND CHORUS | D |
| - | |
| Huzza Huzza for HARRY BROUGH | C |
| AM Law Professor at the U | A |
| niversity we've Got in town | B |
Richard Harris Barham
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