A Likely Lad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD ECECEDED CFCFADAD EGEGADAD| Child of a myriad varied voices calling | A |
| O'er countless leagues of space in divers tongues | B |
| Tho' captious critics view your ways appalling | A |
| And fain would quiet your all too strident lungs | B |
| Raw youth must have its fling and ten brief summers | C |
| Hardly suffice to make you a sage | D |
| So spite your crooners clowns and jazz drunk strummers | C |
| You have not done so badly for your age | D |
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| Much water has flowed down many a river | E |
| The McIntyre at Yetman let us say | C |
| Since first you set ethereal waves a quiver | E |
| With that crude babbling of your natal day | C |
| You're growing up my lad and waxing wiser | E |
| Tho' still the crabbed impatient censors rage | D |
| As entertainer and as advertiser | E |
| You have not done so badly for your age | D |
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| And many lonely men in lonely places | C |
| Have hailed you as a blessing and a joy | F |
| Condoning all your rather callow graces | C |
| And that omniscient air that you employ | F |
| Tho' still much over prone to raucous bawling | A |
| As boys will be you're learning stage by stage | D |
| The wiser weightier aspects of your calling | A |
| You have not done so badly for your age | D |
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| Since days when first we fumbled the cat's whisker | E |
| And strained at ear phones yearning for a sound | G |
| Your lighter moods have brighter grown and brisker | E |
| Your interludes of wisdom more profound | G |
| If thro' the next ten years you keep on growing | A |
| To man's estate and statelier arts engage | D |
| You may please everyone there is no knowing | A |
| Still you have not done badly for your age | D |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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