All In The Family Way. A New Pastoral Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC D EFEFGHGH IJIKLHLH GMGMNHNH OPQRIHIH STSTSHSH IHIHIHAH| SUNG IN THE CHARACTER OF BRITANNIA | A |
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| The Public Debt is due from ourselves to ourselves and resolves | B |
| itself into a Family Account Sir Robert Peel's Letter | C |
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| Tune My banks are all furnisht with bees | D |
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| My banks are all furnisht with rags | E |
| So thick even Freddy can't thin 'em | F |
| I've torn up my old money bags | E |
| Having little or nought to put in 'em | F |
| My tradesmen are smashing by dozens | G |
| But this is all nothing they say | H |
| For bankrupts since Adam are cousins | G |
| So it's all in the family way | H |
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| My Debt not a penny takes from me | I |
| As sages the matter explain | J |
| Bob owes it to Tom and then Tommy | I |
| Just owes it to Bob back again | K |
| Since all have thus taken to owing | L |
| There's nobody left that can pay | H |
| And this is the way to keep going | L |
| All quite in the family way | H |
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| My senators vote away millions | G |
| To put in Prosperity's budget | M |
| And tho' it were billions or trillions | G |
| The generous rogues wouldn't grudge it | M |
| 'Tis all but a family hop | N |
| 'Twas Pitt began dancing the hay | H |
| Hands round why the deuce should we stop | N |
| 'Tis all in the family way | H |
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| My laborers used to eat mutton | O |
| As any great man of the State does | P |
| And now the poor devils are put on | Q |
| Small rations of tea and potatoes | R |
| But cheer up John Sawney and Paddy | I |
| The King is your father they say | H |
| So even if you starve for your Daddy | I |
| 'Tis all in the family way | H |
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| My rich manufacturers tumble | S |
| My poor ones have nothing to chew | T |
| And even if themselves do not grumble | S |
| Their stomachs undoubtedly do | T |
| But coolly to fast en famille | S |
| Is as good for the soul as to pray | H |
| And famine itself is genteel | S |
| When one starves in a family way | H |
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| I have found out a secret for Freddy | I |
| A secret for next Budget day | H |
| Tho' perhaps he may know it already | I |
| As he too's a sage in his way | H |
| When next for the Treasury scene he | I |
| Announces the Devil to pay | H |
| Let him write on the bills nota bene | A |
| 'Tis all in the family way | H |
Thomas Moore
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