Literary Advertisement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GBGB FFFF EHEH IEIE JKAK EFEF FEFE LFLF| Wanted Authors of all work to job for the season | A |
| No matter which party so faithful to neither | B |
| Good hacks who if posed for a rhyme or a reason | A |
| Can manage like to do without either | B |
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| If in jail all the better for out o' door topics | C |
| Your jail is for travellers a charming retreat | D |
| They can take a day's rule for a trip to the Tropics | C |
| And sail round the world at their ease in the Fleet | D |
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| For a dramatist too the most useful of schools | E |
| He can study high life in the King's Bench community | F |
| Aristotle could scarce keep him more within rules | E |
| And of place he at least must adhere to the unity | F |
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| Any lady or gentleman come to an age | G |
| To have good Reminiscences three score or higher | B |
| Will meet with encouragement so much per page | G |
| And the spelling and grammar both found by the buyer | B |
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| No matter with what their remembrance is stockt | F |
| So they'll only remember the quantum desired | F |
| Enough to fill handsomely Two Volumes oct | F |
| Price twenty four shillings is all that's required | F |
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| They may treat us like Kelly with old jeu d'esprits | E |
| Like Dibdin may tell of each farcical frolic | H |
| Or kindly inform us like Madame Genlis | E |
| That gingerbread cakes always give them the colic | H |
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| Wanted also a new stock of Pamphlets on Corn | I |
| By Farmers and Landholders worthies whose lands | E |
| Enclosed all in bow pots their attics adorn | I |
| Or whose share of the soil maybe seen on their hands | E |
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| No Popery Sermons in ever so dull a vein | J |
| Sure of a market should they too who pen 'em | K |
| Be renegade Papists like Murtagh O'Sullivan | A |
| Something extra allowed for the additional venom | K |
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| Funds Physics Corn Poetry Boxing Romance | E |
| All excellent subjects for turning a penny | F |
| To write upon all is an author's sole chance | E |
| For attaining at last the least knowledge of any | F |
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| Nine times out of ten if his title is good | F |
| The material within of small consequence is | E |
| Let him only write fine and if not understood | F |
| Why that's the concern of the reader not his | E |
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| Nota Bene an Essay now printing to show | L |
| That Horace as clearly as words could express it | F |
| Was for taxing the Fund holders ages ago | L |
| When he wrote thus Quodcunque in Fund is assess it | F |
Thomas Moore
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