Cotton And Corn. A Dialogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JJJJ KLKL JMJM ANAN| Said Cotton to Corn t'other day | A |
| As they met and exchanged a salute | B |
| Squire Corn in his carriage so gay | A |
| Poor Cotton half famished on foot | C |
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| Great Squire if it isn't uncivil | D |
| To hint at starvation before you | E |
| Look down on a poor hungry devil | D |
| And give him some bread I implore you | E |
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| Quoth Corn then in answer to Cotton | F |
| Perceiving he meant to make free | G |
| Low fellow you've surely forgotten | F |
| The distance between you and me | G |
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| To expect that we Peers of high birth | H |
| Should waste our illustrious acres | I |
| For no other purpose on earth | H |
| Than to fatten curst calico makers | I |
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| That Bishops to bobbins should bend | J |
| Should stoop from their Bench's sublimity | J |
| Great dealers in lawn to befriend | J |
| Such contemptible dealers in dimity | J |
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| No vile Manufacture ne'er harbor | K |
| A hope to be fed at our boards | L |
| Base offspring of Arkwright the barber | K |
| What claim canst thou have upon Lords | L |
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| No thanks to the taxes and debt | J |
| And the triumph of paper o'er guineas | M |
| Our race of Lord Jemmys as yet | J |
| May defy your whole rabble of Jennys | M |
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| So saying whip crack and away | A |
| Went Corn in his chaise thro' the throng | N |
| So headlong I heard them all say | A |
| Squire Corn will be down before long | N |
Thomas Moore
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