How To Make A Good Politician Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD AAEEFF GGHHAAEIJJKKLLKKLLMM NNEEFFOOPP QQGG| Whene'er you're in doubt said a Sage I once knew | A |
| 'Twixt two lines of conduct which course to pursue | A |
| Ask a woman's advice and whate'er she advise | B |
| Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise | B |
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| Of the same use as guides the Brunswicker throng | C |
| In their thoughts words and deeds so instinctively wrong | C |
| That whatever they counsel act talk or indite | D |
| Take the opposite course and you're sure to be right | D |
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| So golden this rule that had nature denied you | A |
| The use of that finger post Reason to guide you | A |
| Were you even more doltish than any given man is | E |
| More soft than Newcastle more twaddling than Van is | E |
| I'd stake my repute on the following conditions | F |
| To make you the soundest of sound politicians | F |
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| Place yourself near the skirts of some high flying Tory | G |
| Some Brunswicker parson of port drinking glory | G |
| Watch well how he dines during any great Question | H |
| What makes him feel gayly what spoils his digestion | H |
| And always feel sure that his joy o'er a stew | A |
| Portends a clear case of dyspepsia to you | A |
| Read him backwards like Hebrew whatever he wishes | E |
| Or praises note down as absurd or pernicious | I |
| Like the folks of a weather house shifting about | J |
| When he's out be an In when he's in be an Out | J |
| Keep him always reversed in your thoughts night and day | K |
| Like an Irish barometer turned the wrong way | K |
| If he's up you may swear that foul weather is nigh | L |
| If he's down you may look for a bit of blue sky | L |
| Never mind what debaters or journalists say | K |
| Only ask what he thinks and then think t'other way | K |
| Does he hate the Small note Bill then firmly rely | L |
| The Small note Bill's a blessing tho' you don't know why | L |
| Is Brougham his aversion then Harry's your man | M |
| Does he quake at O'Connell take doubly to Dan | M |
| Is he all for the Turks then at once take the whole | N |
| Russian Empire Tsar Cossacks and all to your soul | N |
| In short whatsoever he talks thinks or is | E |
| Be your thoughts words and essence the contrast of his | E |
| Nay as Siamese ladies at least the polite ones | F |
| All paint their teeth black 'cause the devil has white ones | F |
| If even by the chances of time or of tide | O |
| Your Tory for once should have sense on his side | O |
| Even then stand aloof for be sure that Old Nick | P |
| When a Tory talks sensibly means you some trick | P |
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| Such my recipe is and in one single verse | Q |
| I shall now in conclusion its substance rehearse | Q |
| Be all that a Brunswicker is not nor could be | G |
| And then you'll be all that an honest man should be | G |
Thomas Moore
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