New-fashioned Echoes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D EF GHGH IFIF FJFJ KIKI FKFK KLKL FMFM FKNK ONON NMNM NKNK FNFN MIMI PFPF PQPQSir | A |
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Most of your readers are no doubt acquainted with the anecdote told of a certain not over wise judge who when in the act of delivering a charge in some country court house was interrupted by the braying of an ass at the door What noise is that asked the angry judge Only an extraordinary echo there is in court my Lord answered one of the counsel | B |
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As there are a number of such extraordinary echoes abroad just now you will not perhaps be unwilling Mr Editor to receive the following few lines suggested by them | C |
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Yours etc S | D |
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huc coeamus ait nullique libentius unquam responsura sono coeamus retulit echo | E |
OVID | F |
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There are echoes we know of all sorts | G |
From the echo that dies in the dale | H |
To the airy tongued babbler that sports | G |
Up the tide of the torrent her tale | H |
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There are echoes that bore us like Blues | I |
With the latest smart mot they have heard | F |
There are echoes extremely like shrews | I |
Letting nobody have the last word | F |
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In the bogs of old Paddy land too | F |
Certain talented echoes there dwell | J |
Who on being askt How do you do | F |
Politely reply Pretty well | J |
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But why should I talk any more | K |
Of such old fashioned echoes as these | I |
When Britain has new ones in store | K |
That transcend them by many degrees | I |
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For of all repercussions of sound | F |
Concerning which bards make a pother | K |
There's none like that happy rebound | F |
When one blockhead echoes an other | K |
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When Kenyon commences the bray | K |
And the Borough Duke follows his track | L |
And loudly from Dublin's sweet bay | K |
Rathdowne brays with interest back | L |
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And while of most echoes the sound | F |
On our ear by reflection doth fall | M |
These Brunswickers pass the bray round | F |
Without any reflection at all | M |
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Oh Scott were I gifted like you | F |
Who can name all the echoes there are | K |
From Benvoirlich to bold Benvenue | N |
From Benledi to wild Uamvar | K |
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I might track thro' each hard Irish name | O |
The rebounds of this asinine strain | N |
Till from Neddy to Neddy it came | O |
To the chief Neddy Kenyon again | N |
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Might tell how it roared in Rathdowne | N |
How from Dawson it died off genteelly | M |
How hollow it hung from the crown | N |
Of the fat pated Marquis of Ely | M |
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How on hearing my Lord of Glandine | N |
Thistle eaters the stoutest gave way | K |
Outdone in their own special line | N |
By the forty ass power of his bray | K |
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But no for so humble a bard | F |
'Tis a subject too trying to touch on | N |
Such noblemen's names are too hard | F |
And their noddles too soft to dwell much on | N |
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Oh Echo sweet nymph of the hill | M |
Of the dell and the deep sounding shelves | I |
If in spite of Narcissus you still | M |
Take to fools who are charmed with themselves | I |
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Who knows but some morning retiring | P |
To walk by the Trent's wooded side | F |
You may meet with Newcastle admiring | P |
His own lengthened ears in the tide | F |
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Or on into Cambria straying | P |
Find Kenyon that double tongued elf | Q |
In his love of ass cendency braying | P |
A Brunswick duet with himself | Q |
Thomas Moore
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