Attack On The Ad-man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHII JJKKLLMMNN OOPPQQNNRR| This trumpeter of nothingness employed | A |
| To keep our reason dull and null and void | A |
| This man of wind and froth and flux will sell | B |
| The wares of any who reward him well | B |
| Praising whatever he is paid to praise | C |
| He hunts for ever newer smarter ways | C |
| To make the gilt seen gold the shoddy silk | D |
| To cheat us legally to bluff and bilk | D |
| By methods which no jury can prevent | E |
| Because the law's not broken only bent | E |
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| This mind for hire this mental prostitute | F |
| Can tell the half lie hardest to refute | F |
| Knows how to hide an inconvenient fact | G |
| And when to leave a doubtful claim unbacked | G |
| Manipulates the truth but not too much | H |
| And if his patter needs the Human Touch | H |
| Skillfully artless artlessly naive | I |
| Wears his convenient heart upon his sleeve | I |
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| He uses words that once were strong and fine | J |
| Primal as sun and moon and bread and wine | J |
| True honourable honoured clear and keen | K |
| And leaves them shabby worn diminished mean | K |
| He takes ideas and trains them to engage | L |
| In the long little wars big combines wage | L |
| He keeps his logic loose his feelings flimsy | M |
| Turns eloquence to cant and wit to whimsy | M |
| Trims language till it fits his clients pattern | N |
| And style's a glossy tart or limping slattern | N |
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| He studies our defences finds the cracks | O |
| And where the wall is weak or worn attacks | O |
| lie finds the fear that's deep the wound that's tender | P |
| And mastered outmanouevered we surrender | P |
| We who have tried to choose accept his choice | Q |
| And tired succumb to his untiring voice | Q |
| The dripping tap makes even granite soften | N |
| We trust the brand name we have heard so often | N |
| And join the queue of sheep that flock to buy | R |
| We fools who know our folly you and I | R |
Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
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