Rival Topics.[1] An Extravaganza Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABACAACDEDEFDFFD GDGHDIHJHHHHHKHKHALA LMHNHDNDN| Oh Wellington and Stephenson | A |
| Oh morn and evening papers | B |
| Times Herald Courier Globe and Sun | A |
| When will ye cease our ears to stun | A |
| With these two heroes' capers | B |
| Still Stephenson and Wellington | A |
| The everlasting two | C |
| Still doomed from rise to set of sun | A |
| To hear what mischief one has done | A |
| And t'other means to do | C |
| What bills the banker past to friends | D |
| But never meant to pay | E |
| What Bills the other wight intends | D |
| As honest in their way | E |
| Bills payable at distant sight | F |
| Beyond the Grecian kalends | D |
| When all good deeds will come to light | F |
| When Wellington will do what's right | F |
| And Rowland pay his balance | D |
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| To catch the banker all have sought | G |
| But still the rogue unhurt is | D |
| While t'other juggler who'd have thought | G |
| Tho' slippery long has just been caught | H |
| By old Archbishop Curtis | D |
| And such the power of papal crook | I |
| The crosier scarce had quivered | H |
| About his ears when lo the Duke | J |
| Was of a Bull delivered | H |
| Sir Richard Birnie doth decide | H |
| That Rowland must be mad | H |
| In private coach with crest to ride | H |
| When chaises could be had | H |
| And t'other hero all agree | K |
| St Luke's will soon arrive at | H |
| If thus he shows off publicly | K |
| When he might pass in private | H |
| Oh Wellington oh Stephenson | A |
| Ye ever boring pair | L |
| Where'er I sit or stand or run | A |
| Ye haunt me everywhere | L |
| Tho' Job had patience tough enough | M |
| Such duplicates would try it | H |
| Till one's turned out and t'other off | N |
| We Shan' have peace or quiet | H |
| But small's the chance that Law affords | D |
| Such folks are daily let off | N |
| And 'twixt the old Bailey and the Lords | D |
| They both I fear will get off | N |
Thomas Moore
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