Announcement Of A New Thalaba. Addressed To Robert Southey, Esq Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCCCDDEEFFGGHFF FIIFFIIJKK LLCCMMNNOOPPPPQQ RRSSEETTT| When erst my Southey thy tuneful tongue | A |
| The terrible tale of Thalaba sung | A |
| Of him the Destroyer doomed to rout | B |
| That grim divan of conjurors out | B |
| Whose dwelling dark as legends say | C |
| Beneath the roots of the ocean lay | C |
| Fit place for deep ones such as they | C |
| How little thou knewest dear Dr Southey | C |
| Altho' bright genius all allow thee | C |
| That some years thence thy wondering eyes | D |
| Should see a second Thalaba rise | D |
| As ripe for ruinous rigs as thine | E |
| Tho' his havoc lie in a different line | E |
| And should find this new improved Destroyer | F |
| Beneath the wig of a Yankee lawyer | F |
| A sort of an alien alias man | G |
| Whose country or party guess who can | G |
| Being Cockney half half Jonathan | H |
| And his life to make the thing completer | F |
| Being all in the genuine Thalaba metre | F |
| Loose and irregular as thy feet are | F |
| First into Whig Pindarics rambling | I |
| Then in low Tory doggrel scrambling | I |
| Now love his theme now Church his glory | F |
| At once both Tory and ama tory | F |
| Now in the Old Bailey lay meandering | I |
| Now in soft couplet style philandering | I |
| And lastly in lame Alexandrine | J |
| Dragging his wounded length along | K |
| When scourged by Holland's silken thong | K |
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| In short dear Bob Destroyer the Second | L |
| May fairly a match for the First be reckoned | L |
| Save that your Thalaba's talent lay | C |
| In sweeping old conjurors clean away | C |
| While ours at aldermen deals his blows | M |
| Who no great conjurors are God knows | M |
| Lays Corporations by wholesale level | N |
| Sends Acts of Parliament to the devil | N |
| Bullies the whole Milesian race | O |
| Seven millions of Paddies face to face | O |
| And seizing that magic wand himself | P |
| Which erst thy conjurors left on the shelf | P |
| Transforms the boys of the Boyne and Liffey | P |
| All into foreigners in a jiffy | P |
| Aliens outcasts every soul of 'em | Q |
| Born but for whips and chains the whole of 'em | Q |
| - | |
| Never in short did parallel | R |
| Betwixt two heroes gee so well | R |
| And among the points in which they fit | S |
| There's one dear Bob I can't omit | S |
| That hacking hectoring blade of thine | E |
| Dealt much in the Domdaniel line | E |
| And 'tis but rendering justice due | T |
| To say that ours and his Tory crew | T |
| Damn Daniel most devoutly too | T |
Thomas Moore
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