Proposals For A Gynaecocracy. Addressed To A Late Radical Meeting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEDFBBBB BBBBBB BBBBBB GHGHBIBI BBJBJBKKKLMKMKGGBBBB| quas ipsa decus sibi dia Camilla | A |
| delegit pacisque bonas bellique ministras | B |
| VERGIL | C |
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| As Whig Reform has had its range | D |
| And none of us are yet content | E |
| Suppose my friends by way of change | D |
| We try a Female Parliament | F |
| And since of late with he M P 's | B |
| We've fared so badly take to she's | B |
| Petticoat patriots flounced John Russells | B |
| Burdetts in blonde and Broughams in bustles | B |
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| The plan is startling I confess | B |
| But 'tis but an affair of dress | B |
| Nor see I much there is to choose | B |
| 'Twixt Ladies so they're thorough bred ones | B |
| In ribands of all sorts of hues | B |
| Or Lords in only blue or red ones | B |
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| At least the fiddlers will be winners | B |
| Whatever other trade advances | B |
| As then instead of Cabinet dinners | B |
| We'll have at Almack's Cabinet dances | B |
| Nor let this world's important questions | B |
| Depend on Ministers' digestions | B |
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| If Ude's receipts have done things ill | G |
| To Weippert's band they may go better | H |
| There's Lady in one quadrille | G |
| Would settle Europe if you'd let her | H |
| And who the deuce or asks or cares | B |
| When Whigs or Tories have undone 'em | I |
| Whether they've danced thro' State affairs | B |
| Or simply dully dined upon 'em | I |
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| Hurrah then for the Petticoats | B |
| To them we pledge our free born votes | B |
| We'll have all she and only she | J |
| Pert blues shall act as best debaters | B |
| Old dowagers our Bishops be | J |
| And termagants our agitators | B |
| If Vestris to oblige the nation | K |
| Her own Olympus will abandon | K |
| And help to prop the Administration | K |
| It can't have better legs to stand on | L |
| The famed Macaulay Miss shall show | M |
| Each evening forth in learned oration | K |
| Shall move midst general cries of Oh | M |
| For full returns of population | K |
| And finally to crown the whole | G |
| The Princess Olive Royal soul | G |
| Shall from her bower in Banco Regis | B |
| Descend to bless her faithful lieges | B |
| And mid our Union's loyal chorus | B |
| Reign jollily for ever o'er us | B |
Thomas Moore
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