A Different Meaning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFF G F HIH J KI LMIMNODO PAPAQFQF| It is truly as lucid as lucid can be | A |
| It is plain as the nose on your face | B |
| Though the tactics may be a disgrace don't you see | A |
| The tactician is not a disgrace | B |
| He may wobble and swerve and crayfish and curve | C |
| It is all of it part of the game | D |
| But you mustn't say 'Wobbler ' for prithee observe | C |
| That the meaning is not quite the same | D |
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| One might carry this argument ever so far | E |
| There is not the least good in denying | F |
| That though a man's talk may be lies you must baulk | F |
| At describing the talker as 'lying ' | - |
| His work may be slow but it's nonsense you know | G |
| To declare that the man's a 'slow worker ' | - |
| And it he should shirk in the House all his work | F |
| 'Twould be foolish to call him a 'shirker ' | - |
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| In quoting such things one could fill up a ream | H |
| It is so to the end of the chatter | I |
| A man who adapts his adversary's scheme | H |
| He need never be called an 'adapter ' | - |
| And if he should fuse it is not the least use | J |
| To describe him as being a 'Fuser ' | - |
| Such a use of the word is distinctly absurd | K |
| And would earn but contempt for the user | I |
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| For a statesman's a statesman right on to the end | L |
| Never mind what his actions resemble | M |
| He may bargain and palter and stumble and falter | I |
| And wheedle and scheme and dissemble | M |
| But observe these are acts and though probably facts | N |
| That would earn for the mere politician | O |
| A horrible name it is not quite the same | D |
| When applied to a master tactician | O |
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| And so you electors when chewing the ended | P |
| Of reflection attend to this study | A |
| And observe though a member may meddle with mud | P |
| He in not of necessity muddy | A |
| Though he turns like a weathercock ten ways at once | Q |
| Till you never know which way he's leaning | F |
| To call him a weathercock proves you a dunce | Q |
| For it has quite a different meaning | F |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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