News For Country Cousins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC AAAADDEE FFGHIJIJKK LMNNOP QQPPRRSS AA A| Dear Coz as I know neither you nor Miss Draper | A |
| When Parliament's up ever take in a paper | A |
| But trust for your news to such stray odds and ends | B |
| As you chance to pick up from political friends | B |
| Being one of this well informed class I sit down | C |
| To transmit you the last newest news that's in town | C |
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| As to Greece and Lord Cochrane things couldn't look better | A |
| His Lordship who promises now to fight faster | A |
| Has just taken Rhodes and despatched off a letter | A |
| To Daniel O'Connell to make him Grand Master | A |
| Engaging to change the old name if he can | D |
| From the Knights of St John to the Knights of St Dan | D |
| Or if Dan should prefer as a still better whim | E |
| Being made the Colossus 'tis all one to him | E |
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| From Russia the last accounts are that the Tsar | F |
| Most generous and kind as all sovereigns are | F |
| And whose first princely act as you know I suppose | G |
| Was to give away all his late brother's old clothes | H |
| Is now busy collecting with brotherly care | I |
| The late Emperor's nightcaps and thinks of bestowing | J |
| One nightcap apiece if he has them to spare | I |
| On all the distinguisht old ladies now going | J |
| While I write an arrival from Riga the Brothers | K |
| Having nightcaps on board for Lord Eldon and others | K |
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| Last advices from India Sir Archy 'tis thought | L |
| Was near catching a Tartar the first ever caught | M |
| In N Lat l and his Highness Burmese | N |
| Being very hard prest to shell out the rupees | N |
| And not having rhino sufficient they say meant | O |
| To pawn his august Golden Foot for the payment | P |
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| How lucky for monarchs that thus when they choose | Q |
| Can establish a running account with the Jews | Q |
| The security being what Rothschild calls goot | P |
| A loan will be shortly of course set on foot | P |
| The parties are Rothschild A Baring and Co | R |
| With three other great pawnbrokers each takes a toe | R |
| And engages lest Gold foot should give us leg bail | S |
| As he did once before to pay down on the nail | S |
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| This is all for the present what vile pens and paper | A |
| Yours truly dear Cousin best love to Miss Draper | A |
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| September | A |
Thomas Moore
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