A Corrected Report Of Some Late Speeches Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJII KK LLLLMMNNHHHOOO BBPPQQRRSSSSThen I heard one saint speaking and another saint said unto that saint | A |
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St Sinclair rose and declared in smooth | B |
That he wouldn't give sixpence to Maynooth | B |
He had hated priests the whole of his life | C |
For a priest was a man who had no wife | C |
And having no wife the Church was his mother | D |
The Church was his father sister and brother | D |
This being the case he was sorry to say | E |
That a gulf 'twixt Papist and Protestant lay | E |
So deep and wide scarce possible was it | F |
To say even how d' ye do across it | F |
And tho' your Liberals nimble as fleas | G |
Could clear such gulfs with perfect ease | G |
'Twas a jump that naught on earth could make | H |
Your proper heavy built Christian take | H |
No no if a Dance of Sects must be | I |
He would set to the Baptist willingly | I |
At the Independent deign to smirk | J |
And rigadoon with old Mother Kirk | J |
Nay even for once if needs must be | I |
He'd take hands round with all the three | I |
But as to a jig with Popery no | K |
To the Harlot ne'er would he point his toe | K |
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St Mandeville was the next that rose | L |
A saint who round as pedler goes | L |
With his pack of piety and prose | L |
Heavy and hot enough God knows | L |
And he said that Papists were much inclined | M |
To extirpate all of Protestant kind | M |
Which he couldn't in truth so much condemn | N |
Having rather a wish to extirpate them | N |
That is to guard against mistake | H |
To extirpate them for their doctrine's sake | H |
A distinction Churchman always make | H |
Insomuch that when they've prime control | O |
Tho' sometimes roasting heretics whole | O |
They but cook the body for sake of the soul | O |
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Next jumpt St Johnston jollily forth | B |
The spiritual Dogberry of the North | B |
A right wise fellow and what's more | P |
An officer like his type of yore | P |
And he asked if we grant such toleration | Q |
Pray what's the use of our Reformation | Q |
What is the use of our Church and State | R |
Our Bishops Articles Tithe and Rate | R |
And still as he yelled out what's the use | S |
Old Echoes from their cells recluse | S |
Where they'd for centuries slept broke loose | S |
Yelling responsive What's the use | S |
Thomas Moore
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