Ode To Ferdinand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEECCFFGHIIGJII KKLLIIIIDDGG IIIMMGGIIII NNGGOOGGGG| Quit the sword thou King of men | A |
| Grasp the needle once again | A |
| Making petticoats is far | B |
| Safer sport than making war | C |
| Trimming is a better thing | D |
| Than the being trimmed oh King | D |
| Grasp the needle bright with which | E |
| Thou didst for the Virgin stitch | E |
| Garment such as ne'er before | C |
| Monarch stitched or Virgin wore | C |
| Not for her oh semster nimble | F |
| Do I now invoke thy thimble | F |
| Not for her thy wanted aid is | G |
| But for certain grave old ladies | H |
| Who now sit in England's cabinet | I |
| Waiting to be clothed in tabinet | I |
| Or whatever choice toffe is | G |
| Fit for Dowagers in office | J |
| First thy care oh King devote | I |
| To Dame Eldon's petticoat | I |
| Make it of that silk whose dye | K |
| Shifts for ever to the eye | K |
| Just as if it hardly knew | L |
| Whether to be pink or blue | L |
| Or material fitter yet | I |
| If thou couldst a remnant get | I |
| Of that stuff with which of old | I |
| Sage Penelope we're told | I |
| Still by doing and undoing | D |
| Kept her suitors always wooing | D |
| That's the stuff which I pronounce is | G |
| Fittest for Dame Eldon's flounces | G |
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| After this we'll try thy hand | I |
| Mantua making Ferdinand | I |
| For old Goody Westmoreland | I |
| One who loves like Mother Cole | M |
| Church and State with all her soul | M |
| And has past her life in frolics | G |
| Worthy of our Apostolics | G |
| Choose in dressing this old flirt | I |
| Something that won't show the dirt | I |
| As from habit every minute | I |
| Goody Westmoreland is in it | I |
| - | |
| This is all I now shall ask | N |
| Hie thee monarch to thy task | N |
| Finish Eldon's frills and borders | G |
| Then return for further orders | G |
| Oh what progress for our sake | O |
| Kings in millinery make | O |
| Ribands garters and such things | G |
| Are supplied by other Kings | G |
| Ferdinand his rank denotes | G |
| By providing petticoats | G |
Thomas Moore
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