Dick * * * *, A Character Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFEGEG HDGDIGJG| Of various scraps and fragments built | A |
| Borrowed alike from fools and wits | B |
| Dick's mind was like a patchwork quilt | A |
| Made up of new old motley bits | B |
| Where if the Co called in their shares | C |
| If petticoats their quota got | D |
| And gowns were all refunded theirs | C |
| The quilt would look but shy God wot | D |
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| And thus he still new plagiaries seeking | E |
| Reversed ventriloquism's trick | F |
| For 'stead of Dick thro' others speaking | E |
| 'Twas others we heard speak thro' Dick | F |
| A Tory now all bounds exceeding | E |
| Now best of Whigs now worst of rats | G |
| One day with Malthus foe to breeding | E |
| The next with Sadler all for brats | G |
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| Poor Dick and how else could it be | H |
| With notions all at random caught | D |
| A sort of mental fricassee | G |
| Made up of legs and wings of thought | D |
| The leavings of the last Debate or | I |
| A dinner yesterday of wits | G |
| Where Dick sate by and like a waiter | J |
| Had the scraps for perquisites | G |
Thomas Moore
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