Our Visitor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABCDEFDEF AGHAGHIJFIJF AJJAJJGJFGJF DJGDJGIKFIKF| There'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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