Ode To Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDDEFEF GGHIIJKKIAAI BBLLMMNNOPLQQQ RSTSUVVU WWXXBBBB VVYVVYVV QVVQZVZV A2QA2A2QGVGV VB2VB2QQQQ VBVB RRBBC2QQC2 VVVVD2CD2CE2E2| At certain seasons he makes a prodigious clattering with his bill SELBY | A |
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| The bill is rather long flat and tinged with green BEWICK | B |
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| O Andrew Fairservice but I beg pardon | C |
| You never labor'd in Di Vernon's garden | C |
| On curly kale and cabbages intent | D |
| Andrew Churchservice was the thing I meant | D |
| You are a Christian I would be the same | E |
| Although we differ and I'll tell you why | F |
| Not meaning to make game | E |
| I do not like my Church so very High | F |
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| When people talk as talk they will | G |
| About your bill | G |
| They say among their other jibes and small jeers | H |
| That if you had your way | I |
| You'd make the seventh day | I |
| As overbearing as the Dey of Algiers | J |
| Talk of converting Blacks | K |
| By your attacks | K |
| You make a thing so horrible of one day | I |
| Each nigger they will bet a something tidy | A |
| Would rather be a heathenish Man Friday | A |
| Than your Man Sunday | I |
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| So poor men speak | B |
| Who once a week | B |
| P'rhaps after weaving artificial flowers | L |
| Can snatch a glance of Nature's kinder bowers | L |
| And revel in a bloom | M |
| That is not of the loom | M |
| Making the earth the streams the skies the trees | N |
| A Chapel of Ease | N |
| Whereas as you would plan it | O |
| Wall'd in with hard Scotch granite | P |
| People all day should look to their behaviors | L |
| But though there be as Shakspeare owns | Q |
| Sermons in stones | Q |
| Zounds Would you have us work at them like paviors | Q |
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| Spontaneous is pure devotion's fire | R |
| And in a green wood many a soul has built | S |
| A new Church with a fir tree for its spire | T |
| Where Sin has prayed for peace and wept for guilt | S |
| Better than if an architect the plan drew | U |
| We know of old how medicines were back'd | V |
| But true Religion needs not to be quack'd | V |
| By an Un merry Andrew | U |
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| Suppose a poor town weary sallow elf | W |
| At Primrose hill would renovate himself | W |
| Or drink and no great harm | X |
| Milk genuine at Chalk Farm | X |
| The innocent intention who would balk | B |
| And drive him back into St Bennet Fink | B |
| For my part for my life I cannot think | B |
| A walk on Sunday is the Devil's Walk | B |
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| But there's a sect of Deists and their creed | V |
| Is D ing other people to be d d | V |
| Yeas all that are not of their saintly level | Y |
| They make a pious point | V |
| To send with an aroint | V |
| Down to that great Fillhellenist the Devil | Y |
| To such a ramble by the River Lea | V |
| Is really treading on the Banks of D | V |
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| Go down to Margate wisest of law makers | Q |
| And say unto the sea as Canute did | V |
| Of course the sea will do as it is bid | V |
| This is the Sabbath but there be no Breakers | Q |
| Seek London's Bishop on some Sunday morn | Z |
| And try him with your tenets to inoculate | V |
| Abuse his fine souchong and say in scorn | Z |
| This is not Churchman's Chocolate | V |
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| Or seek Dissenters at their mid day meal | A2 |
| And read them from your Sabbath Bill some passages | Q |
| And while they eat their mutton beef and veal | A2 |
| Shout out with holy zeal | A2 |
| These are not Chappet's sassages | Q |
| Suppose your Act should act up to your will | G |
| Yet how will it appear to Mrs Grundy | V |
| To hear you saying of this pious bill | G |
| It works well on a Sunday | V |
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| To knock down apple stalls is now too late | V |
| Except to starve some poor old harmless madam | B2 |
| You might have done some good and chang'd our fate | V |
| Could you have upset that which ruined Adam | B2 |
| 'Tis useless to prescribe salt cod and eggs | Q |
| Or lay post horses under legal fetters | Q |
| While Tattersall's on Sunday stirs its Legs | Q |
| Folks look for good examples from their Betters | Q |
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| Consider Acts of Parliament may bind | V |
| A man to go where Irvings are discoursing | B |
| But as for forcing proper frames of mind | V |
| Minds are not framed like melons for such forcing | B |
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| Remember as a Scottish legislator | R |
| The Scotch Kirk always has a Moderator | R |
| Meaning one need not ever be sojourning | B |
| In a long Sermon Lane without a turning | B |
| Such grave old maids as Portia and Zenobia | C2 |
| May like discourses with a skein of threads | Q |
| And love a lecture for its many heads | Q |
| But as for me I have the Hydra phobia | C2 |
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| Religion one should never overdo | V |
| Right know I am no minister you be | V |
| For you would say your service sir to me | V |
| Till I should say My service sir to you | V |
| Six days made all that is you know and then | D2 |
| Came that of rest by holy ordination | C |
| As if to hint unto the sons of men | D2 |
| After creation should come re creation | C |
| Read right this text and do not further search | E2 |
| To make a Sunday Workhouse of the Church | E2 |
Thomas Hood
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