The Reverend Pamphleteer. A Romantic Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DCDC ECFC GCGC HCHC ICIC JCJC ACAC FCKC ABAC LBLC| Oh 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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