Dog-day Reflections. By A Dandy Kept In Town Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FBFB GHGH IJKJ LAMA NOOO OPOP MCMC AGAG JQJQ AAAA HRHS| vox clamantis in deserto | A |
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| Said Malthus one day to a clown | B |
| Lying stretched on the beach in the sun | C |
| What's the number of souls in this town | B |
| The number Lord bless you there's none | C |
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| We have nothing but dabs in this place | D |
| Of them a great plenty there are | E |
| But the soles please your reverence and grace | D |
| Are all t'other side of the bar | E |
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| And so 'tis in London just now | F |
| Not a soul to be seen up or down | B |
| Of dabs a great glut I allow | F |
| But your soles every one out of town | B |
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| East or west nothing wondrous or new | G |
| No courtship or scandal worth knowing | H |
| Mrs B and a Mermaid or two | G |
| Are the only loose fish that are going | H |
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| Ah where is that dear house of Peers | I |
| That some weeks ago kept us merry | J |
| Where Eldon art thou with thy tears | K |
| And thou with thy sense Londonderry | J |
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| Wise Marquis how much the Lord Mayor | L |
| In the dog days with thee must be puzzled | A |
| It being his task to take care | M |
| That such animals shan't go unmuzzled | A |
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| Thou too whose political toils | N |
| Are so worthy a captain of horse | O |
| Whose amendments like honest Sir Boyle's | O |
| Are amendments that make matters worse | O |
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| Great Chieftain who takest such pains | O |
| To prove what is granted nem con | P |
| With how moderate a portion of brains | O |
| Some heroes contrive to get on | P |
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| And thou too my Redesdale ah where | M |
| Is the peer with a star at his button | C |
| Whose quarters could ever compare | M |
| With Redesdale's five quarters of mutton | C |
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| Why why have ye taken your flight | A |
| Ye diverting and dignified crew | G |
| How ill do three farces a night | A |
| At the Haymarket pay us for you | G |
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| For what is Bombastes to thee | J |
| My Ellenbro' when thou look'st big | Q |
| Or where's the burletta can be | J |
| Like Lauderdale's wit and his wig | Q |
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| I doubt if even Griffinhoof could | A |
| Tho' Griffin's a comical lad | A |
| Invent any joke half so good | A |
| As that precious one This is too bad | A |
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| Then come again come again Spring | H |
| Oh haste thee with Fun in thy train | R |
| And of all things the funniest bring | H |
| These exalted Grimaldis again | S |
Thomas Moore
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