Announcement Of A New Grand Acceleration Company For The Promotion Of The Speed Of Literature Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEE FFGGHHII JJKKLLMM NNOOPPQQRRSSTTUUDDVV VVWWNNXX YYWW| Loud complaints being made in these quick reading times | A |
| Of too slack a supply both of prose works and rhymes | A |
| A new Company formed on the keep moving plan | B |
| First proposed by the great firm of Catch 'em who can | B |
| Beg to say they've now ready in full wind and speed | C |
| Some fast going authors of quite a new breed | C |
| Such as not he who runs but who gallops may read | D |
| And who if well curried and fed they've no doubt | E |
| Will beat even Bentley's swift stud out and out | E |
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| It is true in these days such a drug is renown | F |
| We've Immortals as rife as M P s about town | F |
| And not a Blue's rout but can offhand supply | G |
| Some invalid bard who's insured not to die | G |
| Still let England but once try our authors she'll find | H |
| How fast they'll leave even these Immortals behind | H |
| And how truly the toils of Alcides were light | I |
| Compared with his toil who can read all they write | I |
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| In fact there's no saying so gainful the trade | J |
| How fast immortalities now may be made | J |
| Since Helicon never will want an Undying One | K |
| As long as the public continues a Buying One | K |
| And the company hope yet to witness the hour | L |
| When by strongly applying the mare motive power | L |
| A three decker novel midst oceans of praise | M |
| May be written launched read and forgot in three days | M |
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| In addition to all this stupendous celerity | N |
| Which to the no small relief of posterity | N |
| Pays off at sight the whole debit of fame | O |
| Nor troubles futurity even with a name | O |
| A project that won't as much tickle Tom Tegg as us | P |
| Since 'twill rob him of his second priced Pegasus | P |
| We the Company still more to show how immense | Q |
| Is the power o'er the mind of pounds shillings and pence | Q |
| And that not even Phoebus himself in our day | R |
| Could get up a lay without first an out lay | R |
| Beg to add as our literature soon may compare | S |
| In its quick make and vent with our Birmingham ware | S |
| And it doesn't at all matter in either of these lines | T |
| How sham is the article so it but shines | T |
| We keep authors ready all perched pen in hand | U |
| To write off in any given style at command | U |
| No matter what bard be he living or dead | D |
| Ask a work from his pen and 'tis done soon as said | D |
| There being on the establishment six Walter Scotts | V |
| One capital Wordsworth and Southeys in lots | V |
| Three choice Mrs Nortons all singing like syrens | V |
| While most of our pallid young clerks are Lord Byrons | V |
| Then we've s and s for whom there's small call | W |
| And s and s for whom no call at all | W |
| In short whosoe'er the last Lion may be | N |
| We've a Bottom who'll copy his roar to a T | N |
| And so well that not one of the buyers who've got 'em | X |
| Can tell which is lion and which only Bottom | X |
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| N B The company since they set up in this line | Y |
| Have moved their concern and are now at the sign | Y |
| Of the Muse's Velocipede Fleet Street where all | W |
| Who wish well to the scheme are invited to call | W |
Thomas Moore
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