Speech On The Umbrella Question Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CD ECEC FCFC GHGH IJKL MCMG NCNC| A | |
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| BY LORD ELDON | B |
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| vos inumbrelles video Ex Juvenil | C |
| GEORGII CANNINGII | D |
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| My Lords I'm accused of a trick that God knows is | E |
| The last into which at my age I could fall | C |
| Of leading this grave House of Peers by their noses | E |
| Wherever I choose princes bishops and all | C |
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| My Lords on the question before us at present | F |
| No doubt I shall hear 'Tis that cursed old fellow | C |
| That bugbear of all that is liberal and pleasant | F |
| Who won't let the Lords give the man his umbrella | C |
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| God forbid that your Lordships should knuckle to me | G |
| I am ancient but were I as old as King Priam | H |
| Not much I confess to your credit 'twould be | G |
| To mind such a twaddling old Trojan as I am | H |
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| I own of our Protestant laws I am jealous | I |
| And long as God spares me will always maintain | J |
| That once having taken men's rights or umbrellas | K |
| We ne'er should consent to restore them again | L |
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| What security have you ye Bishops and Peers | M |
| If thus you give back Mr Bell's parapluie | C |
| That he mayn't with its stick come about all your ears | M |
| And then where would your Protestant periwigs be | G |
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| No heaven be my judge were I dying to day | N |
| Ere I dropt in the grave like a medlar that's mellow | C |
| For God's sake at that awful moment I'd say | N |
| For God's sake don't give Mr Bell his umbrella | C |
Thomas Moore
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