Ode To The Goddess Ceres Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DCDC EFEF CGCG HIHI HJHJ FCFC IHIH KLML NINI ODOD ICIC| Dear Goddess of Corn whom the ancients we know | A |
| Among other odd whims of those comical bodies | B |
| Adorn'd with somniferous poppies to show | A |
| Thou wert always a true Country gentleman's Goddess | C |
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| Behold in his best shooting jacket before thee | D |
| An eloquent 'Squire who most humbly beseeches | C |
| Great Queen of the Mark lane if the thing doesn't bore thee | D |
| Thou'lt read o'er the last of his never last speeches | C |
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| Ah Ceres thou know'st not the slander and scorn | E |
| Now heap'd upon England's 'Squirearchy so boasted | F |
| Improving on Hunt 'tis no longer the Corn | E |
| 'Tis the growers of Corn that are now alas roasted | F |
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| In speeches in books in all shapes they attack us | C |
| Reviewers economists fellows no doubt | G |
| That you my dear Ceres and Venus and Bacchus | C |
| And Gods of high fashion know little about | G |
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| There's B nth m whose English is all his own making | H |
| Who thinks just as little of settling a nation | I |
| As he would of smoking his pipe or of taking | H |
| What he himself calls his post prandial vibration | I |
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| There are two Mr M lls too whom those that love reading | H |
| Through all that's unreadable call very clever | J |
| And whreas M ll Senior makes war on good breeding | H |
| M ll Junio makes war on all breeding whatever | J |
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| In short my dear Goddess Old England's divided | F |
| Between ultra blockheads and superfine sages | C |
| With which of these classes we landlords have sided | F |
| Thou'lt find in my Speech if thou'lt read a few pages | C |
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| For therein I've prov'd to my own satisfaction | I |
| And that of all 'Squires I've the honour of meeting | H |
| That 'tis the most senseless and foul mouth'd detraction | I |
| To say that poor people are fond of cheap eating | H |
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| On the contrary such the chaste notions of food | K |
| that dwell in each pale manufacturer's heart | L |
| They would scorn any law be it every so good | M |
| That would make thee dear Goddess less dear than thou art | L |
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| And oh for Monopoly what a blest day | N |
| When the Land and the Silk shall in fond combination | I |
| Like Sulky and Silky that pair in the play | N |
| Cry out with one voice High Rents and Starvation | I |
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| Long life to the Minister no matter who | O |
| Or how dull he may be if with dignified spirit he | D |
| Keeps the ports shut and the people's mouth too | O |
| We shall all have a long run of Freddy's prosperity | D |
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| And as for myself who've like Hannibal sworn | I |
| To hate the whole crew who would take our rents from us | C |
| Had England but One to stand by thee Dear Corn | I |
| That last honest Uni Corn would be Sir Th m s | C |
Thomas Moore
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