New Grand Exhibition Of Models Of The Two Houses Of Parliament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED BDBD AFAF GBHB BIBI JKJK LMLN OPOP JIJQ RSRSTJ| Come step in gentlefolks here ye may view | A |
| An exact and natural representation | B |
| Like Siburn's Model of Waterloo | A |
| Of the Lords and Commons of this here nation | B |
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| There they are all cut out in cork | C |
| The Collective Wisdom wondrous to see | D |
| My eyes when all them heads are at work | E |
| What a vastly weighty consarn it must be | D |
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| As for the wisdom that may come anon | B |
| Tho' to say truth we sometimes see | D |
| And I find the phenomenon no uncommon 'un | B |
| A man who's M P with a head that's M T | D |
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| Our Lords are rather too small 'tis true | A |
| But they do well enough for Cabinet shelves | F |
| And besides what's a man with creeturs to do | A |
| That make such werry small figures themselves | F |
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| There don't touch those lords my pretty dears Aside | G |
| Curse the children this comes of reforming a nation | B |
| Those meddling young brats have so damaged my peers | H |
| I must lay in more cork for a new creation | B |
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| Them yonder's our bishops to whom much is given | B |
| And who're ready to take as much more as you please | I |
| The seers of old time saw visions of heaven | B |
| But these holy seers see nothing but Sees | I |
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| Like old Atlas the chap in Cheapside there below | J |
| 'Tis for so much per cent they take heaven on their shoulders | K |
| And joy 'tis to know that old High Church and Co | J |
| Tho' not capital priests are such capital holders | K |
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| There's one on 'em Phillpotts who now is away | L |
| As we're having him filled with bumbustible stuff | M |
| Small crackers and squibs for a great gala day | L |
| When we annually fire his Right Reverence off | N |
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| 'Twould do your heart good ma'am then to be by | O |
| When bursting with gunpowder 'stead of with bile | P |
| Crack crack goes the bishop while dowagers cry | O |
| How like the dear man both in matter and style | P |
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| Should you want a few Peers and M P s to bestow | J |
| As presents to friends we can recommend these | I |
| Our nobles are come down to nine pence you know | J |
| And we charge but a penny a piece for M P s | Q |
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| Those of bottle corks made take most with the trade | R |
| At least 'mong such as my Irish writ summons | S |
| Of old whiskey corks our O'Connells are made | R |
| But those we make Shaws and Lefroys of are rum 'uns | S |
| So step in gentlefolks etc | T |
| Da Capo | J |
Thomas Moore
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