Write On, Write On. A Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB ACACDEDEF GHGHIJIJF KLKLMNMNF OPOPQRQR| Air Sleep on sleep on my Kathleen dear | A |
| salvete fratres Asini ST FRANCIS | B |
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| Write on write on ye Barons dear | A |
| Ye Dukes write hard and fast | C |
| The good we've sought for many a year | A |
| Your quills will bring at last | C |
| One letter more Newcastle pen | D |
| To match Lord Kenyon's two | E |
| And more than Ireland's host of men | D |
| One brace of Peers will do | E |
| Write on write on etc | F |
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| Sure never since the precious use | G |
| Of pen and ink began | H |
| Did letters writ by fools produce | G |
| Such signal good to man | H |
| While intellect 'mong high and low | I |
| Is marching on they say | J |
| Give me the Dukes and Lords who go | I |
| Like crabs the other way | J |
| Write on write on etc | F |
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| Even now I feel the coming light | K |
| Even now could Folly lure | L |
| My Lord Mountcashel too to write | K |
| Emancipation's sure | L |
| By geese we read in history | M |
| Old Rome was saved from ill | N |
| And now to quills of geese we see | M |
| Old Rome indebted still | N |
| Write on write on etc | F |
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| Write write ye Peers nor stoop to style | O |
| Nor beat for sense about | P |
| Things little worth a Noble's while | O |
| You're better far without | P |
| Oh ne'er since asses spoke of yore | Q |
| Such miracles were done | R |
| For write but four such letters more | Q |
| And Freedom's cause is won | R |
Thomas Moore
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