Ode To The Goddess Ceres Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DCDC EFEF CGCG HIHI HJHJ FCFC IHIH KLML NINI ODOD ICICDear 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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