Stanzas Written In Anticipation Of Defeat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ PDPR| A | |
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| Go seek for some abler defenders of wrong | B |
| If we must run the gantlet thro' blood and expense | C |
| Or Goths as ye are in your multitude strong | B |
| Be content with success and pretend not to sense | C |
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| If the words of the wise and the generous are vain | D |
| If Truth by the bowstring must yield up her breath | E |
| Let Mutes do the office and spare her the pain | D |
| Of an Inglis or Tyndal to talk her to death | E |
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| Chain persecute plunder do all that you will | F |
| But save us at least the old womanly lore | G |
| Of a Foster who dully prophetic of ill | F |
| Is at once the two instruments AUGUR and BORE | G |
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| Bring legions of Squires if they'll only be mute | H |
| And array their thick heads against reason and right | I |
| Like the Roman of old of historic repute | H |
| Who with droves of dumb animals carried the fight | I |
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| Pour out from each corner and hole of the Court | J |
| Your Bedchamber lordlings your salaried slaves | K |
| Who ripe for all job work no matter what sort | J |
| Have their consciences tackt to their patents and staves | K |
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| Catch all the small fry who as Juvenal sings | L |
| Are the Treasury's creatures wherever they swim | M |
| With all the base time serving toadies of Kings | L |
| Who if Punch were the monarch would worship even him | M |
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| And while on the one side each name of renown | N |
| That illumines and blesses our age is combined | O |
| While the Foxes the Pitts and the Cannings look down | N |
| And drop o'er the cause their rich mantles of Mind | O |
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| Let bold Paddy Holmes show his troops on the other | P |
| And counting of noses the quantum desired | Q |
| Let Paddy but say like the Gracchi's famed mother | P |
| Come forward my jewels 'tis all that's required | Q |
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| And thus let your farce be enacted hereafter | P |
| Thus honestly persecute outlaw and chain | D |
| But spare even your victims the torture of laughter | P |
| And never oh never try reasoning again | R |
Thomas Moore
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