The Wellington Spa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCE FGFG HIHIJKJKLMLN OPOP| And drink oblivion to our woes | A |
| Anna Matilda | B |
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| Talk no more of your Cheltenham and Harrowgate springs | C |
| 'Tis from Lethe we now our potations must draw | D |
| Yon Lethe's a cure for all possible things | C |
| And the doctors have named it the Wellington Spa | E |
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| Other physical waters but cure you in part | F |
| One cobbles your gout t'other mends your digestion | G |
| Some settle your stomach but this bless your heart | F |
| It will settle for ever your Catholic Question | G |
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| Unlike too the potions in fashion at present | H |
| This Wellington nostrum restoring by stealth | I |
| So purges the memory of all that's unpleasant | H |
| That patients forget themselves into rude health | I |
| For instance the inventor his having once said | J |
| He should think himself mad if at any one's call | K |
| He became what he is is so purged from his head | J |
| That he now doesn't think he's a madman at all | K |
| Of course for your memories of very long standing | L |
| Old chronic diseases that date back undaunted | M |
| To Brian Boroo and Fitz Stephens' first landing | L |
| A devil of a dose of the Lethe is wanted | N |
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| But even Irish patients can hardly regret | O |
| An oblivion so much in their own native style | P |
| So conveniently planned that whate'er they forget | O |
| They may go on remembering it still all the while | P |
Thomas Moore
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