The Reverend Pamphleteer. A Romantic Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DCDC ECFC GCGC HCHC ICIC JCJC ACAC FCKC ABAC LBLCOh have you heard what hapt of late | A |
If not come lend an ear | B |
While sad I state the piteous fate | A |
Of the Reverend Pamphleteer | C |
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All praised his skilful jockeyship | D |
Loud rung the Tory cheer | C |
While away away with spur and whip | D |
Went the Reverend Pamphleteer | C |
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The nag he rode how could it err | E |
'Twas the same that took last year | C |
That wonderful jump to Exeter | F |
With the Reverend Pamphleteer | C |
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Set a beggar on horseback wise men say | G |
The course he will take is clear | C |
And in that direction lay the way | G |
Of the Reverend Pamphleteer | C |
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Stop stop said Truth but vain her cry | H |
Left far away in the rear | C |
She heard but the usual gay Good by | H |
From her faithless Pamphleteer | C |
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You may talk of the jumps of Homer's gods | I |
When cantering o'er our sphere | C |
I'd back for a bounce 'gainst any odds | I |
This Reverend Pamphleteer | C |
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But ah what tumbles a jockey hath | J |
In the midst of his career | C |
A file of the Times lay right in the path | J |
Of the headlong Pamphleteer | C |
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Whether he tript or shyed thereat | A |
Doth not so clear appear | C |
But down he came as his sermons flat | A |
This Reverend Pamphleteer | C |
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Lord King himself could scarce desire | F |
To see a spiritual Peer | C |
Fall much more dead in the dirt and mire | K |
Than did this Pamphleteer | C |
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Yet pitying parsons many a day | A |
Shall visit his silent bier | B |
And thinking the while of Stanhope say | A |
Poor dear old Pamphleteer | C |
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He has finisht at last his busy span | L |
And now lies coolly here | B |
As often he did in life good man | L |
Good Reverend Pamphleteer | C |
Thomas Moore
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