The Reverend Mullineux Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDDE FBGGBEEE HBIIBGGE JBKKBLLE| I'd reckon his weight as eight stun eight | A |
| And his height as five foot two | B |
| With a face as plain as an eight day clock | C |
| And a walk as brisk as a bantam cock | C |
| Game as a bantam too | B |
| Hard and wiry and full of steam | D |
| That's the boss of the English Team | D |
| Reverend Mullineux | E |
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| Makes no row when the game gets rough | F |
| None of your Strike me blue | B |
| Yous wants smacking across the snout | G |
| Plays like a gentleman out and out | G |
| Same as he ought to do | B |
| Kindly remove from off my face | E |
| That's the way that he states his case | E |
| Reverend Mullineux | E |
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| Kick He can kick like an army mule | H |
| Run like a kangaroo | B |
| Hard to get by as a lawyer plant | I |
| Tackles his man like a bull dog ant | I |
| Fetches hom over too | B |
| Didn't the public cheer and shout | G |
| Watchin' him chuckin' big blokes about | G |
| Reverend Mullineux | E |
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| Scrimmage was packed on his prostrate form | J |
| Somehow the ball got through | B |
| Who was it tackled our big half back | K |
| Flinging him down like an empty sack | K |
| Right on our goal line too | B |
| Who but the man that we thought was dead | L |
| Down with a score of 'em on his head | L |
| Reverend Mullineux | E |
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