Occasional Address For The Opening Of The New Theatre Of St. Stephen, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDD EEFFFFGGAAHH IIBFFGGJJKKLL FFDDMMFF DDFFNN FFO| INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SPOKEN BY THE PROPRIETOR IN FULL COSTUME ON THE TH OF NOVEMBER | A |
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| This day a New House for your edification | B |
| We open most thinking and right headed nation | B |
| Excuse the materials tho' rotten and bad | C |
| They're the best that for money just now could be had | C |
| And if echo the charm of such houses should be | D |
| You will find it shall echo my speech to a T | D |
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| As for actors we've got the old Company yet | E |
| The same motley odd tragicomical set | E |
| And considering they all were but clerks t'other day | F |
| It is truly surprising how well they can play | F |
| Our Manager he who in Ulster was nurst | F |
| And sung Erin go Bragh for the galleries first | F |
| But on finding Pitt interest a much better thing | G |
| Changed his note of a sudden to God save the King | G |
| Still wise as he's blooming and fat as he's clever | A |
| Himself and his speeches as lengthy as ever | A |
| Here offers you still the full use of his breath | H |
| Your devoted and long winded proser till death | H |
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| You remember last season when things went perverse on | I |
| We had to engage as a block to rehearse on | I |
| One Mr Vansittart a good sort of person | B |
| Who's also employed for this season to play | F |
| In Raising the Wind and the Devil to Pay | F |
| We expect too at least we've been plotting and planning | G |
| To get that great actor from Liverpool Canning | G |
| And as at the Circus there's nothing attracts | J |
| Like a good single combat brought in 'twixt the acts | J |
| If the Manager should with the help of Sir Popham | K |
| Get up new diversions and Canning should stop 'em | K |
| Who knows but we'll have to announce in the papers | L |
| Grand fight second time with additional capers | L |
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| Be your taste for the ludicrous humdrum or sad | F |
| There is plenty of each in this House to be had | F |
| Where our Manager ruleth there weeping will be | D |
| For a dead hand at tragedy always was he | D |
| And there never was dealer in dagger and cup | M |
| Who so smilingly got all his tragedies up | M |
| His powers poor Ireland will never forget | F |
| And the widows of Walcheren weep o'er them yet | F |
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| So much for the actors for secret machinery | D |
| Traps and deceptions and shifting of scenery | D |
| Yarmouth and Cum are the best we can find | F |
| To transact all that trickery business behind | F |
| The former's employed too to teach us French jigs | N |
| Keep the whiskers in curl and look after the wigs | N |
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| In taking my leave now I've only to say | F |
| A few Seats in the House not as yet sold away | F |
| May be had of the Manager Pat Castlereagh | O |
Thomas Moore
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