Les Hommes Automates Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBAACCDDEEFFGGHH IIDJKLLAAMMNN LLAAKKOO BBPPQQRRRAA| We are persuaded that this our artificial man will not only walk and speak and perform most of the outward functions of animal life but being wound up once a week will perhaps reason as well as most of your country parsons Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus | A |
| chap xii | A |
| - | |
| - | |
| It being an object now to meet | B |
| With Parsons that don't want to eat | B |
| Fit men to fill those Irish rectories | A |
| Which soon will have but scant refectories | A |
| It has been suggested lest that Church | C |
| Should all at once be left in the lurch | C |
| For want of reverend men endued | D |
| With this gift of never requiring food | D |
| To try by way of experiment whether | E |
| There couldn't be made of wood and leather | E |
| Howe'er the notion may sound chimerical | F |
| Jointed figures not lay but clerical | F |
| Which wound up carefully once a week | G |
| Might just like parsons look and speak | G |
| Nay even if requisite reason too | H |
| As well as most Irish parsons do | H |
| - | |
| The experiment having succeeded quite | I |
| Whereat those Lords must much delight | I |
| Who've shown by stopping the Church's food | D |
| They think it isn't for her spiritual good | J |
| To be served by parsons of flesh and blood | K |
| The Patentees of this new invention | L |
| Beg leave respectfully to mention | L |
| They now are enabled to produce | A |
| An ample supply for present use | A |
| Of these reverend pieces of machinery | M |
| Ready for vicarage rectory deanery | M |
| Or any such like post of skill | N |
| That wood and leather are fit to fill | N |
| - | |
| N B In places addicted to arson | L |
| We can't recommend a wooden parson | L |
| But if the Church any such appoints | A |
| They'd better at least have iron joints | A |
| In parts not much by Protestants haunted | K |
| A figure to look at's all that's wanted | K |
| A block in black to eat and sleep | O |
| Which now that the eating's o'er comes cheap | O |
| - | |
| P S Should the Lords by way of a treat | B |
| Permit the clergy again to eat | B |
| The Church will of course no longer need | P |
| Imitation parsons that never feed | P |
| And these wood creatures of ours will sell | Q |
| For secular purposes just as well | Q |
| Our Beresfords turned to bludgeons stout | R |
| May 'stead of beating their own about | R |
| Be knocking the brains of Papists out | R |
| While our smooth O'Sullivans by all means | A |
| Should transmigrate into turning machines | A |
Thomas Moore
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Les Hommes Automates poem by Thomas Moore
Best Poems of Thomas Moore