The Rector And His Curate; Or, One Pound Two Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEE FFGGHHEE| I trust we shall part as we met in peace and charity My last payment to you paid your salary up to the st of this month Since that I owe you for one month which being a long month of thirty one days amounts as near as I can calculate to six pounds eight shillings My steward returns you as a debtor to the amount of SEVEN POUNDS TEN SHILLINGS FOR COX ACRE GROUND which leaves some trifling balance in my favor Letter of Dismissal from the Rev Marcus Beresford to his Curate the Rev T A Lyons | A |
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| The account is balanced the bill drawn out | B |
| The debit and credit all right no doubt | B |
| The Rector rolling in wealth and state | C |
| Owes to his Curate six pound eight | C |
| The Curate that least well fed of men | D |
| Owes to his Rector seven pound ten | D |
| Which maketh the balance clearly due | E |
| From Curate to Rector one pound two | E |
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| Ah balance on earth unfair uneven | F |
| But sure to be all set right in heaven | F |
| Where bills like these will be checkt some day | G |
| And the balance settled the other way | G |
| Where Lyons the curate's hard wrung sum | H |
| Will back to his shade with interest come | H |
| And Marcus the rector deep may rue | E |
| This tot in his favor of one pound two | E |
Thomas Moore
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