Stanzas From The Banks Of The Shannon. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DEDE DFDF GHIH JKJK LMLM ELFL JLJL LNLN| A | |
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| Take back the virgin page | B |
| MOORE'S Irish Melodies | C |
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| No longer dear Vesey feel hurt and uneasy | D |
| At hearing it said by the Treasury brother | E |
| That thou art a sheet of blank paper my Vesey | D |
| And he the dear innocent placeman another | E |
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| For lo what a service we Irish have done thee | D |
| Thou now art a sheet of blank paper no more | F |
| By St Patrick we've scrawled such a lesson upon thee | D |
| As never was scrawled upon foolscap before | F |
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| Come on with your spectacles noble Lord Duke | G |
| Or O'Connell has green ones he haply would lend you | H |
| Read Vesey all o'er as you can't read a book | I |
| And improve by the lesson we bog trotters send you | H |
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| A lesson in large Roman characters traced | J |
| Whose awful impressions from you and your kin | K |
| Of blank sheeted statesmen will ne'er be effaced | J |
| Unless 'stead of paper you're mere asses' skin | K |
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| Shall I help you to construe it ay by the Gods | L |
| Could I risk a translation you should have a rare one | M |
| But pen against sabre is desperate odds | L |
| And you my Lord Duke as you hinted once wear one | M |
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| Again and again I say read Vesey o'er | E |
| You will find him worth all the old scrolls of papyrus | L |
| That Egypt e'er filled with nonsensical lore | F |
| Or the learned Champollion e'er wrote of to tire us | L |
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| All blank as he was we've returned him on hand | J |
| Scribbled o'er with a warning to Princes and Dukes | L |
| Whose plain simple drift if they won't understand | J |
| Tho' carest at St James's they're fit for St Luke's | L |
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| Talk of leaves of the Sibyls more meaning conveyed is | L |
| In one single leaf such as now we have spelled on | N |
| Than e'er hath been uttered by all the old ladies | L |
| That ever yet spoke from the Sibyls to Eldon | N |
Thomas Moore
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