A Characterless Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGEEHHIIDDJJBBKKEE LLEEMM BBNNOOBBPP| Half Whig half Tory like those mid way things | A |
| 'Twixt bird and beast that by mistake have wings | A |
| A mongrel Stateman 'twixt two factions nurst | B |
| Who of the faults of each combines the worst | B |
| The Tory's loftiness the Whigling's sneer | C |
| The leveller's rashness and the bigot's fear | C |
| The thirst for meddling restless still to show | D |
| How Freedom's clock repaired by Whigs will go | D |
| The alarm when others more sincere than they | E |
| Advance the hands to the true time of day | E |
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| By Mother Church high fed and haughty dame | F |
| The boy was dandled in his dawn of fame | F |
| Listening she smiled and blest the flippant tongue | G |
| On which the fate of unborn tithe pigs hung | G |
| Ah who shall paint the grandam's grim dismay | E |
| When loose Reform enticed her boy away | E |
| When shockt she heard him ape the rabble's tone | H |
| And in Old Sarum's fate foredoom her own | H |
| Groaning she cried while tears rolled down her cheeks | I |
| Poor glib tongued youth he means not what he speaks | I |
| Like oil at top these Whig professions flow | D |
| But pure as lymph runs Toryism below | D |
| Alas that tongue should start thus in the race | J |
| Ere mind can reach and regulate its pace | J |
| For once outstript by tongue poor lagging mind | B |
| At every step still further limps behind | B |
| But bless the boy whate'er his wandering be | K |
| Still turns his heart to Toryism and me | K |
| Like those odd shapes portrayed in Dante's lay | E |
| With heads fixt on the wrong and backward way | E |
| His feet and eyes pursue a diverse track | L |
| While those march onward these look fondly back | L |
| And well she knew him well foresaw the day | E |
| Which now hath come when snatched from Whigs away | E |
| The self same changeling drops the mask he wore | M |
| And rests restored in granny's arms once more | M |
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| But whither now mixt brood of modern light | B |
| And ancient darkness canst thou bend thy flight | B |
| Tried by both factions and to neither true | N |
| Feared by the old school laught at by the new | N |
| For this too feeble and for that too rash | O |
| This wanting more of fire that less of flash | O |
| Lone shalt thou stand in isolation cold | B |
| Betwixt two worlds the new one and the old | B |
| A small and vext Bermoothes which the eye | P |
| Of venturous seaman sees and passes by | P |
Thomas Moore
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