Moral Positions. A Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC CDCD CECEFGFGHIHI HBHB HJHK| His Lordship said that it took a long time for a moral position to find its way across the Atlantic He was very sorry that its voyage had been so long etc Speech of Lord Dudley and Ward on Colonial Slavery March | A |
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| T'other night after hearing Lord Dudley's oration | B |
| A treat that comes once a year as May day does | C |
| I dreamt that I saw what a strange operation | B |
| A moral position shipt off for Barbadoes | C |
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| The whole Bench of Bishops stood by in grave attitudes | C |
| Packing the article tidy and neat | D |
| As their Reverences know that in southerly latitudes | C |
| Moral positions don't keep very sweet | D |
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| There was Bathurst arranging the custom house pass | C |
| And to guard the frail package from tousing and routing | E |
| There stood my Lord Eldon endorsing it Glass | C |
| Tho' as to which side should lie uppermost doubting | E |
| The freight was however stowed safe in the hold | F |
| The winds were polite and the moon lookt romantic | G |
| While off in the good ship The Truth we were rolled | F |
| With our ethical cargo across the Atlantic | G |
| Long dolefully long seemed the voyage we made | H |
| For The Truth at all times but a very slow sailer | I |
| By friends near as much as by foes is delayed | H |
| And few come aboard her tho' so many hail her | I |
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| At length safe arrived I went thro' tare and tret | H |
| Delivered my goods in the primest condition | B |
| And next morning read in the Bridge town Gazette | H |
| Just arrived by 'The Truth ' a new moral position | B |
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| The Captain here startled to find myself named | H |
| As the Captain a thing which I own it with pain | J |
| I thro' life have avoided I woke lookt ashamed | H |
| Found I wasn't a captain and dozed off again | K |
Thomas Moore
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