Paddy's Metamorphosis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL M NANA OJOJ| About fifty years since in the days of our daddies | A |
| That plan was commenced which the wise now applaud | B |
| Of shipping off Ireland's most turbulent Paddies | A |
| As good raw material for settlers abroad | B |
| Some West India island whose name I forget | C |
| Was the region then chosen for this scheme so romantic | D |
| And such the success the first colony met | C |
| That a second soon after set sail o'er the Atlantic | D |
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| Behold them now safe at the long lookt for shore | E |
| Sailing in between banks that the Shannon might greet | F |
| And thinking of friends whom but two years before | E |
| They had sorrowed to lose but would soon again meet | F |
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| And hark from the shore a glad welcome there came | G |
| Arrah Paddy from Cork is it you my sweet boy | H |
| While Pat stood astounded to hear his own name | G |
| Thus hailed by black devils who capered for joy | H |
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| Can it possibly be half amazement half doubt | I |
| Pat listens again rubs his eyes and looks steady | J |
| Then heaves a deep sigh and in horror yells out | I |
| Good Lord only think black and curly already | J |
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| Deceived by that well mimickt brogue in his ears | K |
| Pat read his own doom in these wool headed figures | L |
| And thought what a climate in less than two years | K |
| To turn a whole cargo of Pats into niggers | L |
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| MORAL | M |
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| 'Tis thus but alas by a marvel more true | N |
| Than is told in this rival of Ovid's best stories | A |
| Your Whigs when in office a short year or two | N |
| By a lusus naturae all turn into Tories | A |
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| And thus when I hear them strong measures advise | O |
| Ere the seats that they sit on have time to get steady | J |
| I say while I listen with tears in my eyes | O |
| Good Lord only think black and curly already | J |
Thomas Moore
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