A Ballad Of Freedom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDECCFFBGHIBIC JJBBCCCCCCCCCCKBLBC C CCCCBBCC CCCCMNMC CCCCCCKKCCCCCCKCOC KKCCCCCCCCJJCCCBCBC CCCCCCPPCCCCQPRP AAC CC ACCCCCCBAKA AAAACCSSCCAACCCCTCC UUCCCCCCCCCCCCKAAACNow Mr Jeremiah Bane | A |
He owned a warehouse in The Lane | A |
An edifice of goodly size | B |
Where with keen private enterprise | B |
He sold imported napery | C |
And drapery and drapery | C |
His singlets and his socks were sent | D |
Out over half the continent | E |
In clothing for the nursery | C |
And mercery and mercery | C |
He plied a most extensive trade | F |
And quite enormous prodfits made | F |
And barracked with much fervency | B |
For foreign trade described as 'Free ' | G |
He said | H |
Indeed | I |
It was | B |
His creed | I |
The trade described as Free | C |
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And this good man was known to fame | J |
For charity indeed his name | J |
Shone often in the daily press | B |
When needy folk were in distress | B |
He aided with publicity | C |
Mendicity mendicity | C |
And though much cash he thuswise spared | C |
There still were people who declared | C |
His act of private charity | C |
A rarity a rarity | C |
Donations duly advertised | C |
From business point of view he prized | C |
But 'good by stealth' he ne'er could see | C |
Was any use to such as he | C |
But still | K |
The press | B |
With much | L |
Success | B |
Declared his hand was free | C |
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Now Mr Bane's employees were | C |
Wont to address the boss as 'Sir ' | - |
To show him most intense respect | C |
And there were few who would neglect | C |
To couple with civility | C |
Humility humility | C |
They dressed in cheap but pretty clothes | B |
And ev'ry man turned up his nose | B |
And scorned familiarity | C |
Or parity or parity | C |
With ill dressed toilers who 'combined ' | - |
They thought proceedings of that kind | C |
Were of a very 'low' degree | C |
For they were 'cultured ' don't you see | C |
'Tis true | C |
Their pay | M |
Was mean | N |
But they | M |
Felt proud to be so free | C |
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Though they were vilely underpaid | C |
They were too proud or else afraid | C |
To advertise the fact abroad | C |
Or see to get a Wages Board | C |
Besides their meek servility | C |
Gentility gentility | C |
Forbade so rash an act but still | K |
One man there was his name was Bill | K |
Who vowed their fool propensity | C |
Was density was density | C |
An unenlightened state of mind | C |
A lack of wit that made them blind | C |
'You're but a lot of worms ' said he | C |
'If you were men you'd clearly see | C |
Until | K |
You band | C |
And make | O |
A stand | C |
You never can be free ' | - |
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And ev'ry day this person Bill | K |
Conversed with them of unions till | K |
They owned his arguments were true | C |
And one by one waxed eager to | C |
Embrace an opportunity | C |
For unity for unity | C |
They talked about a Wages Board | C |
Which formerly they had abhorred | C |
And girded at their slavery | C |
With bravery with bravery | C |
Each man began to feel 'The Firm' | J |
No longer owned it for its worm | J |
Their independence they could see | C |
Achieved by simple unity | C |
Forgot | C |
Their clothes | B |
And mixed | C |
With those | B |
Who battle to be free | C |
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When Mr Bane one morning heard | C |
About his thing he cried 'Absurd | C |
They'll never get my clerks to horde | C |
With those who seek the Wages Board | C |
And lose respectability | C |
Futility Futility | C |
My clerks are gentlemen who'd scorn | P |
To mingle with the lowly born | P |
Such bosh I've never heard ' said he | C |
'Absurd ' said he 'Absurd ' said he | C |
'As for their pay they're quite content | C |
They've never asked an extra cent | C |
And in | Q |
The morn | P |
They'll mark | R |
Their scorn | P |
And show you they are free ' | - |
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And on the morrow Mr Bane | A |
Called them together to 'explain' | A |
'I have a small petition here | C |
But first I wish to make it clear ' | - |
Said he with simple gravity | C |
And suavity and suavity | C |
'That no man here is asked to sign ' | - |
His voice was gentle and benign | A |
'I trust to your humanity | C |
And sanity and sanity | C |
To guide you but I feel quite sure | C |
That Wages Boards you can't endure | C |
I leave it all to you ' said he | C |
'It makes no difference to me | C |
My views | B |
Are known | A |
But still | K |
I've shown | A |
Your choice in this is free ' | - |
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The staff it looked at Mr Bane | A |
And in his eye it read quite plain | A |
'Neath that expression so benign | A |
The fate of him who did not sign | A |
A vision of futurity | C |
Obscurity obscurity | C |
A dearth of work in short the sack | S |
They knew that he who answered back | S |
Would earn by his temerity | C |
Severity severity | C |
So one and all with shaky pen | A |
Signed this refusal to be men | A |
But surely as you must agree | C |
Their choice was free as it could be | C |
They said | C |
The Board | C |
They all | T |
Abhorred | C |
Preferring to be free | C |
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Still Mr Bane grows fat and sleek | U |
And still at thirty bob a week | U |
His clerks slave on from morn till night | C |
No hope of better things in sight | C |
But Bane with much benignity | C |
And dignity and dignity | C |
When talk of Wages Board is heard | C |
Declares the notion is absurd | C |
'My clerks with prompt celerity | C |
And verity and verity | C |
Refused the thing with one accord | C |
The clerks themselves don't want the Board | C |
It is preposterous ' says he | C |
'To force it on who don't agree | C |
And still | K |
His men | A |
With brain | A |
And pen | A |
To fatten him are free | C |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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