Charles Stuart Calverley

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Contentment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFF HIHI JIJK FLFL MNMN OPLP QLQL RFRF STST UVUV KWKW

After The Manner Of HoraceA
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Friend there be they on whom mishapB
Or never or so rarely comesC
That when they think thereof they snapB
Derisive thumbsC
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And there be they who lightly loseD
Their all yet feel no aching voidE
Should aught annoy them they refuseD
To be annoy'dE
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And fain would I be e'en as theseF
Life is with such all beer and skittlesG
They are not difficult to pleaseF
About their victualsF
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The trout the grouse the early peaH
By such if there are freely takenI
If not they munch with equal gleeH
Their bit of baconI
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And when they wax a little gayJ
And chaff the public after luncheonI
If they're confronted with a strayJ
Policeman's truncheonK
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They gaze thereat with outstretch'd necksF
And laughter which no threats can smotherL
And tell the horror stricken XF
That he's anotherL
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In snowtime if they cross a spotM
Where unsuspected boys have slidN
They fall not down though they would notM
Mind if they didN
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When the spring rosebud which they wearO
Breaks short and tumbles from its stemP
No thought of being angry e'erL
Dawns upon themP
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Though 'twas Jemima's hand that placedQ
As well you ween at evening's hourL
In the loved button hole that chasteQ
And cherish'd flowerL
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And when they travel if they findR
That they have left their pocket compassF
Or Murray or thick boots behindR
They raise no rumpusF
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But plod serenely on withoutS
Knowing it's better to endureT
The evil which beyond all doubtS
You cannot cureT
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When for that early train they're lateU
They do not make their woes the textV
Of sermons in the Times but waitU
On for the nextV
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And jump inside and only grinK
Should it appear that that dry wagW
The guard omitted to put inK
Their carpet bagW

Charles Stuart Calverley



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