Anticlimax Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFEFGG EBHBII JKLKB| Now my gift of crude invective is astonishingly high | A |
| And I've quite a flair for fierce vituperation | B |
| But I have to sit and watch the precious moments drifting by | A |
| Just because my countrymen seek moderation | B |
| But ah what verbal lightnings round my foeman's head might play | C |
| If I once became a freeman of the candid U S A | D |
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| Now 'a partly vocal crea puff with a taste for comic song' | E |
| Seems forced and weak and unimaginative | F |
| While an 'economic shyster' I consider far from strong | E |
| In an artist with a claim to be creative | F |
| I'd surely think of terser terms original and tense | G |
| To fling abroad while keeping to the strict Pickwickian sense | G |
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| For I have walked with bullockies back of the far Barcoo | E |
| I've drunk with shearers hit the track with stockmen | B |
| And surely there is none upon the earth I don't care who | H |
| More famed for epithets that truly shock men | B |
| Oh I could 'trade a line of talk' to sting a heart of wood | I |
| Or blister brazen monkeys well I mean I think I could | I |
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| Yet when I reconsider it and con my lessons o'er | J |
| I begin to doubt these mighty reputations | K |
| Robbed of their scarlet adjective their minds seem but a store | L |
| Of long outworn and crude reiterations | K |
| And the fiercest trick of speech that these my mates can teach me now | B |
| Is to shake the ambient ether with 'Oh 'im They silly cow ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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