Twopenny Post-bag, Intercepted Letters, Etc. Letter Vi. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFAAAGGDD CCAAHHDDIIDDJJKKLLDD DDDMN DDDDOPIIQQRR SSMNTTUNAAVVDD DDWW W XXAAWWGG YYZCCZFROM ABDALLAH IN LONDON TO MOHASSAN IN ISPAHAN | A |
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Whilst thou Mohassan happy thou | B |
Dost daily bend thy loyal brow | B |
Before our King our Asia's treasure | C |
Nutmeg of Comfort Rose of Pleasure | C |
And bearest as many kicks and bruises | D |
As the said Rose and Nutmeg chooses | D |
Thy head still near the bowstring's borders | E |
And but left on till further orders | E |
Thro' London streets with turban fair | F |
And caftan floating to the air | F |
I saunter on the admiration | A |
Of this short coated population | A |
This sewed up race this buttoned nation | A |
Who while they boast their laws so free | G |
Leave not one limb at liberty | G |
But live with all their lordly speeches | D |
The slaves of buttons and tight breeches | D |
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Yet tho' they thus their knee pans fetter | C |
They're Christians and they know no better | C |
In some things they're a thinking nation | A |
And on Religious Toleration | A |
I own I like their notions quite | H |
They are so Persian and so right | H |
You know our Sunnites hateful dogs | D |
Whom every pious Shiite flogs | D |
Or longs to flog 'tis true they pray | I |
To God but in an ill bred way | I |
With neither arms nor legs nor faces | D |
Stuck in their right canonic places | D |
'Tis true they worship Ali's name | J |
Their heaven and ours are just the same | J |
A Persian's Heaven is easily made | K |
'Tis but black eyes and lemonade | K |
Yet tho' we've tried for centuries back | L |
We can't persuade this stubborn pack | L |
By bastinadoes screws or nippers | D |
To wear the establisht pea green slippers | D |
Then only think the libertines | D |
They wash their toes they comb their chins | D |
With many more such deadly sins | D |
And what's the worst tho' last I rank it | M |
Believe the Chapter of the Blanket | N |
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Yet spite of tenets so flagitious | D |
Which must at bottom be seditious | D |
Since no man living would refuse | D |
Green slippers but from treasonous views | D |
Nor wash his toes but with intent | O |
To overturn the government | P |
Such is our mild and tolerant way | I |
We only curse them twice a day | I |
According to a Form that's set | Q |
And far from torturing only let | Q |
All orthodox believers beat 'em | R |
And twitch their beards where'er they meet 'em | R |
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As to the rest they're free to do | S |
Whate'er their fancy prompts them to | S |
Provided they make nothing of it | M |
Towards rank or honor power or profit | N |
Which things we naturally expect | T |
Belong to US the Establisht sect | T |
Who disbelieve the Lord be thanked | U |
The aforesaid Chapter of the Blanket | N |
The same mild views of Toleration | A |
Inspire I find this buttoned nation | A |
Whose Papists full as given to rogue | V |
And only Sunnites with a brogue | V |
Fare just as well with all their fuss | D |
As rascal Sunnites do with us | D |
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The tender Gazel I enclose | D |
Is for my love my Syrian Rose | D |
Take it when night begins to fall | W |
And throw it o'er her mother's wall | W |
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GAZEL | W |
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Rememberest thou the hour we past | X |
That hour the happiest and the last | X |
Oh not so sweet the Siha thorn | A |
To summer bees at break of morn | A |
Not half so sweet thro' dale and dell | W |
To Camels' ears the tinkling bell | W |
As is the soothing memory | G |
Of that one precious hour to me | G |
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How can we live so far apart | Y |
Oh why not rather heart to heart | Y |
United live and die | Z |
Like those sweet birds that fly together | C |
With feather always touching feather | C |
Linkt by a hook and eye | Z |
Thomas Moore
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