Jimmy Wood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF GFGF HFHF IBIB JKJK LMLM KMKM NDND OMOM PQPQ FMFM RMRM| There came a lonely Briton to the town | A |
| A solitary Briton with a mission | B |
| He d vowed a vow to put all shouting down | A |
| To relegate it to a low position | B |
| Transcendently Britannic in his dress | C |
| His manners were polite and slightly formal | D |
| And this I mention with extreme distress | C |
| His put away for liquid was abnormal | D |
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| He viewed this shouting mania with disgust | E |
| As being generosity perverted | F |
| When any of the boys went on the bust | E |
| He strove his best that they might be converted | F |
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| He wouldn t take a liquor with a man | G |
| Not if he was to be hanged drawn and quartered | F |
| And yet he drank construe it as you can | G |
| Unsweetened gin most moderately watered | F |
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| And when the atmosphere was in a whirl | H |
| And language metaphorical ran riot | F |
| He d calmly tender sixpence to the girl | H |
| And drink his poison solus nice and quiet | F |
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| Whenever he was asked to breast the bar | I |
| He d answer with a touch of condescension | B |
| I much regret to disoblige so far | I |
| As to decline your delicate attention | B |
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| That drink s a curse that hangeth like a leech | J |
| A sad but most indubitable fact is | K |
| Mankind was meant to drink alone I preach | J |
| And what I preach invariably practise | K |
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| I never pay for others nor do I | L |
| Take drink from them and never never would sir | M |
| One man one liquor though I have to die | L |
| A martyr to my faith that s Jimmy Wood sir | M |
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| My friend tis not a bit of use to raise | K |
| A hurricane of bluster and of banter | M |
| I preach my humble gospel in the phrase | K |
| Similia similibus curantur | M |
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| Which means by drinking how and when I like | N |
| And sticking to the one unsweetened sample | D |
| I hope in course of time that it will strike | N |
| All men to follow up my good example | D |
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| In course of time it struck all men that Jim | O |
| Was fast developing into a soaker | M |
| The breath of palsy on his every limb | O |
| A bleary face touched up with crimson ochre | M |
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| Yet firmly stood he by the sinking ship | P |
| Went down at last with all his colours flying | Q |
| No hand but his raised tumbler to his lip | P |
| What time J Woods the Martyr lay a dying | Q |
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| Misunderstood reformer gallant heart | F |
| He gave his path to Death the great collector | M |
| Now in Elysian fields he sits apart | F |
| And sips his modest Tommy Dodd of nectar | M |
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| His signature is on the scroll of fame | R |
| You cannot well forget him though you would sir | M |
| The man is dead not so his homely name | R |
| Who drinks alone drinks toast to Jimmy Wood sir | M |
Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake
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