Reinforcements For Lord Wellington Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDDEEFFAAGGHHHII JJAAKKLM NN| suosque tibi commendat Troja Penates hos cape fatorum comites | A |
| VERGIL | B |
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| As recruits in these times are not easily got | C |
| And the Marshal must have them pray why should we not | C |
| As the last and I grant it the worst of our loans to him | D |
| Ship off the Ministry body and bones to him | D |
| There's not in all England I'd venture to swear | E |
| Any men we could half so conveniently spare | E |
| And tho' they've been helping the French for years past | F |
| We may thus make them useful to England at last | F |
| Castlereagh in our sieges might save some disgraces | A |
| Being used to the taking and keeping of places | A |
| And Volunteer Canning still ready for joining | G |
| Might show off his talent for sly under mining | G |
| Could the Household but spare us its glory and pride | H |
| Old Headfort at horn works again might be tried | H |
| And as Chief Justice make a bold charge at his side | H |
| While Vansittart could victual the troops upon tick | I |
| And the Doctor look after the baggage and sick | I |
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| Nay I do not see why the great Regent himself | J |
| Should in times such as these stay at home on the shelf | J |
| Tho' thro' narrow defiles he's not fitted to pass | A |
| Yet who could resist if he bore down en masse | A |
| And tho' oft of an evening perhaps he might prove | K |
| Like our Spanish confederates unable to move | K |
| Yet there's one thing in war of advantage unbounded | L |
| Which is that he could not with ease be surrounded | M |
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| In my next I shall sing of their arms and equipment | N |
| At present no more but good luck to the shipment | N |
Thomas Moore
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