Awful Event. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDDD DDEE DDFFGGGGFF DDDDDDFF| Yes Winchelsea I tremble while I pen it | A |
| Winehelsea's Earl hath cut the British Senate | B |
| Hath said to England's Peers in accent gruff | C |
| That for ye all snapping his fingers and exit in a huff | C |
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| Disastrous news like that of old which spread | D |
| From shore to shore our mighty Pan is dead | D |
| O'er the cross benches cross from being crost | D |
| Sounds the loud wail Our Winchelsea is lost | D |
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| Which of ye Lords that heard him can forget | D |
| The deep impression of that awful threat | D |
| I quit your house midst all that histories tell | E |
| I know but one event that's parallel | E |
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| It chanced at Drury Lane one Easter night | D |
| When the gay gods too blest to be polite | D |
| Gods at their ease like those of learned Lucretius | F |
| Laught whistled groaned uproariously facetious | F |
| A well drest member of the middle gallery | G |
| Whose ears polite disdained such low canaillerie | G |
| Rose in his place so grand you'd almost swear | G |
| Lord Winchelsea himself stood towering there | G |
| And like that Lord of dignity and nous | F |
| Said Silence fellows or I'll leave the house | F |
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| How brookt the gods this speech Ah well a day | D |
| That speech so fine should be so thrown away | D |
| In vain did this mid gallery grandee | D |
| Assert his own two shilling dignity | D |
| In vain he menaced to withdraw the ray | D |
| Of his own full price countenance away | D |
| Fun against Dignity is fearful odds | F |
| And as the Lords laugh now so giggled then the gods | F |
Thomas Moore
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