How To Write By Proxy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP FQFQ RSRS| qui facit per alium facit per se | A |
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| 'Mong our neighbors the French in the good olden time | B |
| When Nobility flourisht great Barons and Dukes | C |
| Often set up for authors in prose and in rhyme | B |
| But ne'er took the trouble to write their own books | D |
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| Poor devils were found to do this for their betters | E |
| And one day a Bishop addressing a Blue | F |
| Said Ma'am have you read my new Pastoral Letters | E |
| To which the Blue answered No Bishop have you | F |
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| The same is now done by our privileged class | G |
| And to show you how simple the process it needs | H |
| If a great Major General wishes to pass | G |
| For an author of History thus he proceeds | H |
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| First scribbling his own stock of notions as well | I |
| As he can with a goose quill that claims him as kin | J |
| He settles his neckcloth takes snuff rings the bell | I |
| And yawningly orders a Subaltern in | J |
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| The Subaltern comes sees his General seated | K |
| In all the self glory of authorship swelling | L |
| There look saith his Lordship my work is completed | K |
| It wants nothing now but the grammar and spelling | L |
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| Well used to a breach the brave Subaltern dreads | M |
| Awkward breaches of syntax a hundred times more | N |
| And tho' often condemned to see breaking of heads | M |
| He had ne'er seen such breaking of Priscian's before | N |
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| However the job's sure to pay that's enough | O |
| So to it he sets with his tinkering hammer | P |
| Convinced that there never was job half so tough | O |
| As the mending a great Major General's grammar | P |
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| But lo a fresh puzzlement starts up to view | F |
| New toil for the Sub for the Lord new expense | Q |
| 'Tis discovered that mending his grammar won't do | F |
| As the Subaltern also must find him in sense | Q |
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| At last even this is achieved by his aid | R |
| Friend Subaltern pockets the cash and the story | S |
| Drums beat the new Grand March of Intellect's played | R |
| And off struts my Lord the Historian in glory | S |
Thomas Moore
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