Ballad For The Cambridge Election Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCDEE FGHGEE IJIJEE BKBLEEMBEBEE B| I authorized my Committee to take the step which they did of proposing a fair comparison of strength upon the understanding that whichever of the two should prove to be the weakest should give way to the other | A |
| Extract from Mr W J Bankes's Letter to Mr Goulbourn | B |
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| Bankes is weak and Goulbourn too | C |
| No one e'er the fact denied | D |
| Which is weakest of the two | C |
| Cambridge can alone decide | D |
| Choose between them Cambridge pray | E |
| Which is weakest Cambridge say | E |
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| Goulbourn of the Pope afraid is | F |
| Bankes as much afraid as he | G |
| Never yet did two old ladies | H |
| On this point so well agree | G |
| Choose between them Cambridge pray | E |
| Which is weakest Cambridge say | E |
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| Each a different mode pursues | I |
| Each the same conclusion reaches | J |
| Bankes is foolish in Reviews | I |
| Goulbourn foolish in his speeches | J |
| Choose between them Cambridge pray | E |
| Which is weakest Cambridge say | E |
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| Each a different foe doth damn | B |
| When his own affairs have gone ill | K |
| Bankes he damneth Buckingham | B |
| Goulbourn damneth Dan O'Connell | L |
| Choose between them Cambridge pray | E |
| Which is weakest Cambridge say | E |
| Once we know a horse's neigh | M |
| Fixt the election to a throne | B |
| So whichever first shall bray | E |
| Choose him Cambridge for thy own | B |
| Choose him choose him by his bray | E |
| Thus elect him Cambridge pray | E |
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| June | B |
Thomas Moore
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