A Ballad For Elderly Kids Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDAE FGFGHIJI KLALCFAF MNMONON PN BQ Q NNRNSNRN PTNTAUAU NVNVNTAT RMWMANNN IAIAWPXP RABATYTY RNNNZNIN ANBNFAFA CAC AANA KAXAAAAANow this is the ballad of Jeremy Jones | A |
And likewise of Bobadil Brown | B |
Of the Snooks and the Snaggers and Macs and Malones | A |
And Diggle and Daggle and Down | B |
In fact 'tis a song of a fatuous throng | C |
Which embraces 'the man in the street ' | D |
And the bloke on the 'bus and a crowd more of us | A |
And a lot of the people we meet | E |
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Yes this is the story of Jack and of Jill | F |
Whose surnames are Snawley or Smith | G |
And of Public Opinion and National Will | F |
And samples of Popular Myth | G |
For Jeremy Jones as a very small boy | H |
Was encouraged to struggle for pelf | I |
And to strive very hard in his own little yard | J |
But never to think for himself | I |
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Then Hi diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle | K |
Come sing us a nursery rhyme | L |
For in spite of our whiskers we elderly friskers | A |
Are kiddes the most of our time | L |
So this is the song of the juvenile throng | C |
And its aunts and its big brother Bill | F |
Its uncles and cousins and sisters in dozens | A |
Louisa and 'Liza and Lill | F |
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Now Jeremy Jones was exceedingly 'loyal ' | - |
And when any procession went by | M |
He'd cheer very loud with the rest of the crowd | N |
Though he honestly couldn't tell why | M |
He was taught that his 'rulers' toiled hard for his sake | O |
And promoted the 'general good' | N |
That to meddle with 'customs' was quite a mistake | O |
And Jones didn't see why he should | N |
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To gird at the 'Order of Things as they Are ' | - |
He was told was the act of a fool | P |
He was taught in effect to regard with respect | N |
Ev'ry' 'Precedent ' 'Practice' and 'Rule ' | - |
And if we deserted the 'Usual Plan' | B |
He believed that the nation would fall | Q |
So Jones became known as a 'right thinking man ' | - |
Which meant that he didn't at all | Q |
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Oh Little Miss Muffett she sat on a tuffet | N |
But fled from a spider in fright | N |
For no one haa told her that if she was bolder | R |
She might have asserted her right | N |
Ho rub a dub dub three men in a tub | S |
On a sea of political doubt | N |
And they argue together concerning the weather | R |
But never attempt to get out | N |
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They made him a grocer when Jerry left school | P |
And a very good grocer was he | T |
And a dunce he was not for he knew quite a lot | N |
Of such matters as treacle and tea | T |
But the making of nations and things so immense | A |
He considered beyond his control | U |
He was busy on week days at saving his pence | A |
And on Sundays at saving his soul | U |
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But politics Jones did not wholly neglect | N |
He subscribed to a paper THE SAGE | V |
And every morn with becoming respect | N |
He scanned its political page | V |
He believed what was said in each leader he read | N |
For a 'right thinking person' was he | T |
Who was shocked at their vices who growled of the prices | A |
Of Sugar or treacle or tea | T |
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Oh Little Jack Horner sits in a corner | R |
A look of delight in his eye | M |
At the sight of a plum on the end of his thumb | W |
While there's somebody sneaking his pie | M |
Then ride a cook hoss to Banbury Cross | A |
Though the Lord only knows why we do | N |
But there's precedent for it and those who ignore it | N |
We class as an ignorant crew | N |
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So Jeremy Jones he meanders through life | I |
Behaving as Grandmother bids | A |
And so do his very respectable wife | I |
And extremely conventional kids | A |
Their bosses can trust 'em for habit and custom | W |
They've learnt in the regular school | P |
And they call him 'right thinking ' while privately winking | X |
And setting him down as a fool | P |
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Convention's his master he vows that disaster | R |
Will swiftly encompass its foes | A |
He thinks Evolution a Labor delusion | B |
And 'Progress' a 'something' that grows | A |
He's one of the many a credulous zany | T |
The leadable bleedable type | Y |
Who looks upon 'Time' instructed by Granny | T |
As something that rarely is ripe | Y |
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Oh Goosey goose gander where do you wander | R |
Only kind sir where I'm told | N |
For my master has said I must go where I'm led | N |
And to contradict him would be bold | N |
And Little Bo peep she lost her sheep | Z |
It's the Socialist's fault she'll insist | N |
But leave her to grieve for she'll never believe | I |
That a Meat Trust could ever exist | N |
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Then this is the ballad of elderly kids | A |
Of Jeremy Jones and his kind | N |
Of Bobadil Brown and Daggle and Down | B |
And the crowd with the juvenile mind | N |
Oh this is a song of the National Will | F |
Of the Snooks and the Snaggers and Smiths | A |
Their aunts and their cousins and big brother Bill | F |
Convention and Popular Myths | A |
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A sad little song of the fatuous throng | C |
A string of sedate little rhymes | A |
Concerning the crowd who consider it wrong | C |
To collide with the 'trend of the times ' | - |
A song about Us who are missing the 'bus | A |
While we trifle and toy with pretence | A |
For we play very hard in our own little yard | N |
But we seldom look over the fence | A |
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Then Hi diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle | K |
We're never concerned with the cause | A |
Let's giggle and sinf for the Trust and the Ring | X |
Are really our old Santa Claus | A |
Effects may surprise us but Granny'll advise us | A |
We'll never behave as she bids | A |
Ho grocers and drapres let's stick to the papers | A |
We're all of us elderly kids | A |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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