Mr. Molony-s Account Of The Ball Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDF AAA AGAG HIAIHAHA JAHAHKAK IFAFAAGA HAHAIAIA AHKHAIAI LIBIHAMA CLNLHIOI AIHILILIO will ye choose to hear the news | A |
Bedad I cannot pass it o'er | B |
I'll tell you all about the Ball | C |
To the Naypaulase Ambassador | B |
Begor this fete all balls does bate | D |
At which I've worn a pump and I | E |
Must here relate the splendthor great | D |
Of th' Oriental Company | F |
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These men of sinse dispoised expinse | A |
To fete these black Achilleses | A |
'We'll show the blacks ' says they 'Almack's | A |
And take the rooms at Willis's ' | - |
With flags and shawls for these Nepauls | A |
They hung the rooms of Willis up | G |
And decked the walls and stairs and halls | A |
With roses and with lilies up | G |
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And Jullien's band it tuck its stand | H |
So sweetly in the middle there | I |
And soft bassoons played heavenly chunes | A |
And violins did fiddle there | I |
And when the Coort was tired of spoort | H |
I'd lave you boys to think there was | A |
A nate buffet before them set | H |
Where lashins of good dhrink there was | A |
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At ten before the ball room door | J |
His moighty Excellincy was | A |
He smoiled and bowed to all the crowd | H |
So gorgeous and immense he was | A |
His dusky shuit sublime and mute | H |
Into the door way followed him | K |
And O the noise of the blackguard boys | A |
As they hurrood and hollowed him | K |
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The noble Chair stud at the stair | I |
And bade the dthrums to thump and he | F |
Did thus evince to that Black Prince | A |
The welcome of his Company | F |
O fair the girls and rich the curls | A |
And bright the oys you saw there was | A |
And fixed each oye ye there could spoi | G |
On Gineral Jung Bahawther was | A |
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This Gineral great then tuck his sate | H |
With all the other ginerals | A |
Bedad his troat his belt his coat | H |
All bleezed with precious minerals | A |
And as he there with princely air | I |
Recloinin on his cushion was | A |
All round about his royal chair | I |
The squeezin and the pushin was | A |
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O Pat such girls such Jukes and Earls | A |
Such fashion and nobilitee | H |
Just think of Tim and fancy him | K |
Amidst the hoigh gentilitee | H |
There was Lord De L'Huys and the Portygeese | A |
Ministher and his lady there | I |
And I reckonized with much surprise | A |
Our messmate Bob O'Grady there | I |
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There was Baroness Brunow that looked like Juno | L |
And Baroness Rehausen there | I |
And Countess Roullier that looked peculiar | B |
Well in her robes of gauze in there | I |
There was Lord Crowhurst I knew him first | H |
When only Mr Pips he was | A |
And Mick O'Toole the great big fool | M |
That after supper tipsy was | A |
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There was Lord Fingall and his ladies all | C |
And Lords Killeen and Dufferin | L |
And Paddy Fife with his fat wife | N |
I wondther how he could stuff her in | L |
There was Lord Belfast that by me past | H |
And seemed to ask how should I go there | I |
And the Widow Macrae and Lord A Hay | O |
And the Marchioness of Sligo there | I |
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Yes Jukes and Earls and diamonds and pearls | A |
And pretty girls was sporting there | I |
And some beside the rogues I spied | H |
Behind the windies coorting there | I |
O there's one I know bedad would show | L |
As beautiful as any there | I |
And I'd like to hear the pipers blow | L |
And shake a fut with Fanny there | I |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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