Our Visitor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABCDEFDEF AGHAGHIJFIJF AJJAJJGJFGJF DJGDJGIKFIKFThere's a fellow on the station | A |
He dropped in on a call | B |
Just casual to stay a pleasant week | C |
He's a banker's near relation | A |
Strongly built and very tall | B |
Not altogether destitute of cheek | C |
He's a descent judge of whisky | D |
And the hardest working youth | E |
Who ever played a polo on a cob | F |
His anecdotes are risky | D |
And to tell the honest truth | E |
He's waiting here until he gets a job | F |
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He's waiting as I mention | A |
And whene'er he says his prayers | G |
Which he doesn't do as frequently as some | H |
And I fear that his intention | A |
Isn't quite so good as theirs | G |
For he prays to God the work may never come | H |
He marches with the banner | I |
Of the noble unemployed | J |
He mixes with the fashionable mob | F |
But while he's got a tanner | I |
He scorns to be decoyed | J |
Where there's any chance he may get a job | F |
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He's an excellent musician | A |
And the song that suits him best | J |
Old Stumpy is a masterpiece of art | J |
'Tis a splendid composition | A |
As he chucks it off his chest | J |
Though there's something of a hitch about the start | J |
He's an artist too in colours | G |
For he painted up the boat | J |
You wonder but he did so help me bob | F |
And all the champion scullers | G |
When once he gets afloat | J |
Couldn't catch him if they offered him a job | F |
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He's very unpretending | D |
Most affable and kind | J |
He'll take a whisky any time it suits | G |
Extremely condescending | D |
He really does not mind | J |
He'll even when it's muddy wear your boots | G |
Some think he isn't clever | I |
But it's my distinct belief | K |
That there's much more than they fancy in his nob | F |
But he's travelling on the never | I |
And will surely die of grief | K |
On the day when he's compelled to take a job | F |
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