Cobbers And Quids Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFFGFG HDHDIFI| Is youth not less pedantic less absurd | A |
| Less prone to value things of little worth | B |
| In failing to wax wrath about a word | A |
| That bears suspicion of a lowly birth | B |
| All words have known their low and vulgar days | C |
| Known grime and poverty when they were young | D |
| And many a proud and pompous modern phrase | C |
| Was once the plaything of a common tongue | D |
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| But as we grow respectable and staid | E |
| Mere sound to middle age parades as sense | F |
| Grey slaves of precedent we grow afraid | E |
| Of youth and all its sane inconsequence | F |
| Forgetting words are no god given things | F |
| With queer intolerance we would insist | G |
| In terms to which the mould of ages clings | F |
| On purity that never did exist | G |
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| Language is not the gift of any god | H |
| Rude tribesmen made it when the race was young | D |
| And as around the weary earth we plod | H |
| Still the illiterate enrich the tongue | D |
| And still while careless youth goes gaily rid | I |
| Of age's caution precedent and pence | F |
| Better a cobber who'll lend half a quid | I |
| Than all the thrifty pedant's 'commonsense ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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