Tory Pledges Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KKKK LMNM OJOJ KKKK JKJK KPKP KJKJ KQKR| I pledge myself thro' thick and thin | A |
| To labor still with zeal devout | B |
| To get the Outs poor devils in | A |
| And turn the Ins the wretches out | B |
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| I pledge myself tho' much bereft | C |
| Of ways and means of ruling ill | D |
| To make the most of what are left | C |
| And stick to all that's rotten still | D |
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| Tho' gone the days of place and pelf | E |
| And drones no more take all the honey | F |
| I pledge myself to cram myself | E |
| With all I can of public money | F |
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| To quarter on that social purse | G |
| My nephews nieces sisters brothers | H |
| Nor so we prosper care a curse | G |
| How much 'tis at the expense of others | H |
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| I pledge myself whenever Right | I |
| And Might on any point divide | J |
| Not to ask which is black or white | I |
| But take at once the strongest side | J |
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| For instance in all Tithe discussions | K |
| I'm for the Reverend encroachers | K |
| I loathe the Poles applaud the Russians | K |
| Am for the Squires against the Poachers | K |
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| Betwixt the Corn lords and the Poor | L |
| I've not the slightest hesitation | M |
| The People must be starved to insure | N |
| The Land its due remuneration | M |
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| I pledge myself to be no more | O |
| With Ireland's wrongs beprosed or shammed | J |
| I vote her grievances a bore | O |
| So she may suffer and be damned | J |
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| Or if she kick let it console us | K |
| We still have plenty of red coats | K |
| To cram the Church that general bolus | K |
| Down any given amount of throats | K |
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| I dearly love the Frankfort Diet | J |
| Think newspapers the worst of crimes | K |
| And would to give some chance of quiet | J |
| Hang all the writers of The Times | K |
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| Break all their correspondents' bones | K |
| All authors of Reply Rejoinder | P |
| From the Anti Tory Colonel Jones | K |
| To the Anti Suttee Mr Poynder | P |
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| Such are the Pledges I propose | K |
| And tho' I can't now offer gold | J |
| There's many a way of buying those | K |
| Who've but the taste for being sold | J |
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| So here's with three times three hurrahs | K |
| A toast of which you'll not complain | Q |
| Long life to jobbing may the days | K |
| Of Peculation shine again | R |
Thomas Moore
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