Ode To Richard Martin, Esq.,[1] M.p. For Galway Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCAADAAD EEFFGGGGGHHGHHG FAFFAIJJIKGGLG M NOOOOGGAAGGAGGA M GGG ADADADDA GPGQPOQQOQFMFMF| Martin in this has proved himself a very good man | A |
| Boxiana | A |
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| How many sing of wars | B |
| Of Greek and Trojan jars | C |
| The butcheries of men | A |
| The Muse hath a Perpetual Ruby Pen | A |
| Dabbling with heroes and the blood they spill | D |
| But no one sings the man | A |
| That like a pelican | A |
| Nourishes Pity with his tender Bill | D |
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| Thou Wilberforce of hacks | E |
| Of whites as well as blacks | E |
| Pyebald and dapple gray | F |
| Chestnut and bay | F |
| No poet's eulogy thy name adorns | G |
| But oxen from the fens | G |
| Sheep in their pens | G |
| Praise thee and red cows with their winding horns | G |
| Thou art sung on brutal pipes | G |
| Drovers may curse thee | H |
| Knackers asperse thee | H |
| And sly M P 's bestow their cruel wipes | G |
| But the old horse neighs thee | H |
| And zebras praise thee | H |
| Asses I mean that have as many stripes | G |
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| Hast thou not taught the Drover to forbear | F |
| In Smithfield's muddy murderous vile environ | A |
| Staying his lifted bludgeon in the air | F |
| Bullocks don't wear | F |
| Oxide of iron | A |
| The cruel Jarvy thou hast summon'd oft | I |
| Enforcing mercy on the coarse Yahoo | J |
| That thought his horse the courser of the two | J |
| Whilst Swift smiled down aloft | I |
| O worthy pair for this when ye inhabit | K |
| Bodies of birds if so the spirit shifts | G |
| From flesh to feather when the clown uplifts | G |
| His hands against the sparrow's nest to grab it | L |
| He shall not harm the MARTINS and the Swifts | G |
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| Ah when Dean Swift was quick how he enhanc'd | N |
| The horse and humbled biped man like Plato | O |
| But now he's dead the charger is mischanc'd | O |
| Gone backward in the world and not advanc'd | O |
| Remember Cato | O |
| Swift was the horse's champion not the King's | G |
| Whom Southey sings | G |
| Mounted on Pegasus would he were thrown | A |
| He'll wear that ancient hackney to the bone | A |
| Like a mere clothes horse airing royal things | G |
| Ah well a day the ancients did not use | G |
| Their steeds so cruelly let it debar men | A |
| From wanton rowelling and whip's abuse | G |
| Look at the ancients' Muse | G |
| Look at their Carmen | A |
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| V | M |
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| O Martin I how thine eyes | G |
| That one would think had put aside its lashes | G |
| That can't bear gashes | G |
| Thro' any horse's side must ache to spy | - |
| That horrid window fronting Fetter lane | A |
| For there's a nag the crows have pick'd for victual | D |
| Or some man painted in a bloody vein | A |
| Gods is there no Horse spital | D |
| That such raw shows must sicken the humane | A |
| Sure Mr Whittle | D |
| Loves thee but little | D |
| To let that poor horse linger in his pane | A |
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| O build a Brookes's Theatre for horses | G |
| O wipe away the national reproach | P |
| And find a decent Vulture for their corses | G |
| And in thy funeral track | Q |
| Four sorry steeds shall follow in each coach | P |
| Steeds that confess the luxury of wo | O |
| True mourning steeds in no extempore black | Q |
| And many a wretched hack | Q |
| Shall sorrow for thee sore with kick and blow | O |
| And bloody gash it is the Indian knack | Q |
| Save that the savage is his own tormentor | F |
| Banting shall weep too in his sable scarf | M |
| The biped woe the quadruped shall enter | F |
| And Man and Horse go half and half | M |
| As if their griefs met in a common Centaur | F |
Thomas Hood
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