Fragment Of A Character Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HFHF IJIJ FKFL MNMN FOFO FPFP DNDN OQOQ| Here lies Factotum Ned at last | A |
| Long as he breathed the vital air | B |
| Nothing throughout all Europe past | A |
| In which Ned hadn't some small share | B |
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| Whoe'er was in whoe'er was out | C |
| Whatever statesmen did or said | D |
| If not exactly brought about | C |
| 'Twas all at least contrived by Ned | D |
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| With Nap if Russia went to war | E |
| 'Twas owing under Providence | F |
| To certain hints Ned gave the Tsar | G |
| Vide his pamphlet price sixpence | F |
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| If France was beat at Waterloo | H |
| As all but Frenchmen think she was | F |
| To Ned as Wellington well knew | H |
| Was owing half that day's applause | F |
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| Then for his news no envoy's bag | I |
| E'er past so many secrets thro' it | J |
| Scarcely a telegraph could wag | I |
| Its wooden finger but Ned knew it | J |
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| Such tales he had of foreign plots | F |
| With foreign names one's ear to buzz in | K |
| From Russia shefs and ofs in lots | F |
| From Poland owskis by the dozen | L |
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| When George alarmed for England's creed | M |
| Turned out the last Whig ministry | N |
| And men asked who advised the deed | M |
| Ned modestly confest 'twas he | N |
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| For tho' by some unlucky miss | F |
| He had not downright seen the King | O |
| He sent such hints thro' Viscount This | F |
| To Marquis That as clenched the thing | O |
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| The same it was in science arts | F |
| The Drama Books MS and printed | P |
| Kean learned from Ned his cleverest parts | F |
| And Scott's last work by him was hinted | P |
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| Childe Harold in the proofs he read | D |
| And here and there infused some soul in't | N |
| Nay Davy's Lamp till seen by Ned | D |
| Had odd enough an awkward hole in't | N |
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| 'Twas thus all doing and all knowing | O |
| Wit statesman boxer chymist singer | Q |
| Whatever was the best pie going | O |
| In that Ned trust him had his finger | Q |
Thomas Moore
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