Lines On The Departure Of Lord Castlereagh And Stewart For The Continent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBC BBBB DCDC ECFC BCBC GHGH BIBI BBBB JBJB BBBB| A | |
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| at Paris et Fratres et qui rapure sub illis | B |
| vix tenuere manus scis hoc Menelae nefandas | B |
| OVID Metam lib xiii v | C |
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| Go Brothers in wisdom go bright pair of Peers | B |
| And my Cupid and Fame fan you both with their pinions | B |
| The one the best lover we have of his years | B |
| And the other Prime Statesman of Britain's dominions | B |
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| Go Hero of Chancery blest with the smile | D |
| Of the Misses that love and the monarchs that prize thee | C |
| Forget Mrs Angelo Taylor awhile | D |
| And all tailors but him who so well dandifies thee | C |
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| Never mind how thy juniors in gallantry scoff | E |
| Never heed how perverse affidavits may thwart thee | C |
| But show the young Misses thou'rt scholar enough | F |
| To translate Amor Fortis a love about forty | C |
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| And sure 'tis no wonder when fresh as young Mars | B |
| From the battle you came with the Orders you'd earned in't | C |
| That sweet Lady Fanny should cry out My stars | B |
| And forget that the Moon too was some way concerned in't | C |
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| For not the great Regent himself has endured | G |
| Tho' I've seen him with badges and orders all shine | H |
| Till he lookt like a house that was over insured | G |
| A much heavier burden of glories than thine | H |
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| And 'tis plain when a wealthy young lady so mad is | B |
| Or any young ladies can so go astray | I |
| As to marry old Dandies that might be their daddies | B |
| The stars are in fault my Lord Stewart not they | I |
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| Thou too t'other brother thou Tully of Tories | B |
| Thou Malaprop Cicero over whose lips | B |
| Such a smooth rigmarole about monarchs and glories | B |
| And nullidge and features like syllabub slips | B |
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| Go haste at the Congress pursue thy vocation | J |
| Of adding fresh sums to this National Debt of ours | B |
| Leaguing with Kings who for mere recreation | J |
| Break promises fast as your Lordship breaks metaphors | B |
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| Fare ye well fare ye well bright Pair of Peers | B |
| And may Cupid and Fame fan you both with their pinions | B |
| The one the best lover we have of his years | B |
| And the other Prime Statesman of Britain's dominions | B |
Thomas Moore
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