Ode To The Sublime Porte Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEE FEFE GEGE HIHE JKJK EHEH| Great Sultan how wise are thy state compositions | A |
| And oh above all I admire that Decree | B |
| In which thou command'st that all she politicians | A |
| Shall forthwith be strangled and cast in the sea | B |
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| 'Tis my fortune to know a lean Benthamite spinster | C |
| A maid who her faith in old Jeremy puts | D |
| Who talks with a lisp of the quot last new Westminster quot | E |
| And hopes you're delighted with quot Mill upon Gluts quot | E |
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| Who tells you how clever one Mr Fun blank is | F |
| How charming his Articles 'gainst the Nobility | E |
| And assures you that even a gentleman's rank is | F |
| In Jeremy's school of no sort of utility | E |
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| To see her ye Gods a new number perusing | G |
| Art quot On the Needle's variations quot by Pl e | E |
| Art By her fav'rite Fun blank so amusing | G |
| quot Dear man he makes poetry quite a Law case quot | E |
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| Art quot Upon Fallacies quot Jeremy's own | H |
| Chief Fallacy being his hope to find readers | I |
| Art quot Upon Honesty quot author unkown | H |
| Art by the young Mr M quot Hints to Breeders quot | E |
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| Oh Sultan oh Sultan though oft for the bag | J |
| And the bowstring like thee I am tempted to call | K |
| Though drowning's too good for each blue stocking hag | J |
| I would bag this she Benthamite first of them all | K |
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| And lest she should ever again lift her head | E |
| From the watery bottom her clack to renew | H |
| As a clog as a sinker far better than lead | E |
| I would hang round her neck her own darling Review | H |
Thomas Moore
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