A Different Route Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDD EEFGGHIJ JJKLLKMM NNOPPOQQ PPRPPRSS| Say you have some great objective | A |
| Very well Be calm reflective | A |
| Make no vulgar show of vigor 'tisn't good | B |
| Do not rush the thing directly | C |
| But approach it circumspectly | C |
| As a gentlemanly politician should | B |
| Though certain consequences hinge upon the laws you make | D |
| Your prestige in high politics rests with the road you take | D |
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| For the common sort of fellows | E |
| With enthusiastic bellows | E |
| Rush about and shout their schemes in ev'ry ear | F |
| In their shirt sleeves toiling fretting | G |
| And most vulgarly a sweating | G |
| Quite without a thought or care how they appear | H |
| And if they do arrive at things a trifle in advance | I |
| Their strenuous endeavors go to prove their ignorance | J |
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| Have a care for your appearance | J |
| If you claim the least adherence | J |
| To the genteel game of politics as played | K |
| By right thinking politicians | L |
| Who 'consider their positions' | L |
| Once a week while common business is delayed | K |
| And shun O shun that fearsome fellow eager for a spurt | M |
| And the man who metaphorically labors in his shirt | M |
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| What though others rush before you | N |
| What though busy folk ignore you | N |
| Draw your gloves on carefully and take your stick | O |
| Having chosen your direction | P |
| Then proceed with circumspection | P |
| Stepping out with dignity but not too quick | O |
| If mere workers are before you that is what you must expect | Q |
| But reflect with satisfaction that your route is more select | Q |
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| Then pray have no hesitation | P |
| Should you find your destination | P |
| Is the same as that of him that humps the load | R |
| In declaring that your action | P |
| Gives you perfect satisfaction | P |
| As you reached the place by quite another road | R |
| Ignore his paltry claim to being first such was his whim | S |
| But emphasise the fact that you disdained to follow him | S |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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