Alarming Intelligence! Revolution In The Dictionary--one Galt At The Head Of It Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKLKL ILIL MNMN OPOP| God preserve us there's nothing now safe from assault | A |
| Thrones toppling around churches brought to the hammer | B |
| And accounts have just reached us that one Mr Galt | A |
| Has declared open war against English and Grammar | B |
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| He had long been suspected of some such design | C |
| And the better his wicked intents to arrive at | D |
| Had lately 'mong Colburn's troops of the line | C |
| The penny a line men enlisted as private | E |
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| There schooled with a rabble of words at command | F |
| Scotch English and slang in promiscuous alliance | G |
| He at length against Syntax has taken his stand | F |
| And sets all the Nine Parts of Speech at defiance | G |
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| Next advices no doubt further facts will afford | H |
| In the mean time the danger most imminent grows | I |
| He has taken the Life of one eminent Lord | H |
| And whom he'll next murder the Lord only knows | I |
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| Wednesday evening | J |
| Since our last matters luckily look more serene | K |
| Tho' the rebel 'tis stated to aid his defection | L |
| Has seized a great Powder no Puff Magazine | K |
| And the explosions are dreadful in every direction | L |
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| What his meaning exactly is nobody knows | I |
| As he talks in a strain of intense botheration | L |
| Of lyrical ichor gelatinous prose | I |
| And a mixture called amber immortalization | L |
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| Now he raves of a bard he once happened to meet | M |
| Seated high among rattlings and churning a sonnet | N |
| Now talks of a mystery wrapt in a sheet | M |
| With a halo by way of a nightcap upon it | N |
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| We shudder in tracing these terrible lines | O |
| Something bad they must mean tho' we can't make it out | P |
| For whate'er may be guessed of Galt's secret designs | O |
| That they're all Anti English no Christian can doubt | P |
Thomas Moore
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