Corn And Catholics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB BCBC BDBD EFEF GHGI CBCB BJBJ KBLB BMBN OPOP| What still those two infernal questions | A |
| That with our meals our slumbers mix | B |
| That spoil our tempers and digestions | B |
| Eternal Corn and Catholics | B |
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| Gods were there ever two such bores | B |
| Nothing else talk'd of night or morn | C |
| Nothing in doors or out of doors | B |
| But endless Catholics and Corn | C |
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| Never was such a brace of pests | B |
| While Ministers still worse than either | D |
| Skill'd but in feathering their nests | B |
| Plague us with both and settle neither | D |
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| So addled in my cranium meet | E |
| Popery and Corn that oft I doubt | F |
| Whether this year 'twas bonded Wheat | E |
| Or bonded Papists they let out | F |
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| Here landlords here polemics nail you | G |
| Arm'd with all rubbish they can rake up | H |
| Prices and Texts at once assail you | G |
| From Daniel these and those from Jacob | I |
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| And when you sleep with head still torn | C |
| Between the two their shapes you mix | B |
| Till sometimes Catholics seem Corn | C |
| Then Corn again seems Catholics | B |
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| Now Dantzic wheat before you floats | B |
| Now Jesuits from California | J |
| Now Ceres link'd with Titus Oats | B |
| Comes dancing through the Porta Cornea | J |
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| Oft too the Corn grows animate | K |
| And a whole crop of heads appears | B |
| Like Papists bearding Church and State | L |
| Themselves together by the ears | B |
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| In short these torments never cease | B |
| And oft I wish myself transferr'd off | M |
| To some far lonely land of peace | B |
| Where Corn or Papists ne'er were heard of | N |
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| Yes waft me Parry to the Pole | O |
| For if my fate is to be chosen | P |
| 'Twixt bores and icebergs on my soul | O |
| I'd rather of the two be frozen | P |
Thomas Moore
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