Culture And Cops Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFGFGH IJKJLL MNGNOO PQRQSS TEUEVV WBXBWW YZA2ZB2B2 C2D2E2D2B2B2 F2G2H2G2I2 I2I2T J2 I2I2I2 G2G2 I2K2 B2BL2BB2 I2M2I2M2N2 I2O2I2 J2 I2P2I2P2I2 Q2XR2XBB GS2T2 K2 XI2U2I2OO I2I2I2I2V2 I2W2TW2I2 X2I2Y2I2J2J2Five nights agone I lay at rest | A |
On my suburban couch | B |
My trousers on the bedpost hung | C |
Red gold within their pouch | B |
The twin gods Law and Order seemed | D |
To me all powerful as I dreamed | D |
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My life was staid my rates were paid | E |
And peace was in my mind | F |
Nor recked I of unruly men | G |
To evil deeds inclined | F |
Strange primal atavistic men | G |
Who shock the peaceful citizen | H |
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But all the same by stealth he came | I |
A man of vile intent | J |
What cared he that my life was pure | K |
Or that I paid my rent | J |
He willed to violate my shrine | L |
For household treasures that were mine | L |
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He planned to thieve my household goods | M |
Heirlooms of divers kinds | N |
I cannot understand such men | G |
Nor fathom their dark minds | N |
Why cannot they abjure all vice | O |
And be respectable and nice | O |
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With purpose vile and with a file | P |
My window he attacked | Q |
A stealthy scratch upon the catch | R |
Awoke me to the fact | Q |
Softly with sudden fear amazed | S |
A corner of the blind I raised | S |
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I saw his face Oh what a man | T |
His manhood should degrade | E |
And seek to rob I checked a so | U |
Except in honest trade | E |
A predatory face I saw | V |
That showed no reverence for Law | V |
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With whirring head I slid from bed | W |
Crept from my peaceful couch | B |
Forsook my trousers hanging there | X |
Red gold within their pouch | B |
Out through my chamber door I fled | W |
And up the hallway softly sped | W |
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Into the murky night I stole | Y |
To see a certain cop | Z |
Whose forthright feet patrol the beat | A2 |
A stone's throw from my shop | Z |
In my pyjama suit went I | B2 |
Across the moon dark clouds swept by | B2 |
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I saw him draped upon a post | C2 |
Like someone in a swoon | D2 |
His buttons gleamed what time the clouds | E2 |
Released the troubled moon | D2 |
He gazed upon the changing sky | B2 |
A strange light in his dreamy eye | B2 |
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'Now haste thee cop ' I called aloud | F2 |
And seized him by the arm | G2 |
'There is a wretch without my house | H2 |
Who bodes my treasure harm' | G2 |
Toward the sky he waved a hand | I2 |
And answered 'Ain't that background grand ' | - |
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'Nay gentle John ' said I 'attend | I2 |
A thief my goods and gold | I2 |
Seeks to purloin Go seize the man | T |
Before the trail is cold ' | - |
'Those spires against the sky ' said he | J2 |
'Surcharged with beauty are to me ' | - |
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'I give the man in charge ' I cried | I2 |
'He is on evil bent | I2 |
He seeks of all its treasured art | I2 |
To strip my tenement ' | - |
He answered as one in a dream | G2 |
'Ain't that a bonzer colour scheme | G2 |
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'Them tortured clouds agen the moon ' | - |
The foolish cop pursued | I2 |
'Remind me of some Whistler thing | K2 |
But I prefer the nood ' | - |
Said I 'Arrest this man of vice ' | - |
Said he 'The nood is very nice ' | - |
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'My pants ' cried I 'unguarded lie | B2 |
Beside my peaceful couch | B |
My second best pair with the stripes | L2 |
Red gold within their pouch | B |
Thieves Murder Burglars FIRE ' cried I | B2 |
Sighed he 'Oh spires against the sky ' | - |
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Then in my pink pyjamas clad | I2 |
I danced before his eyes | M2 |
In anger impotent I sought | I2 |
His car with savage cries | M2 |
He pushed me from him with a moan | N2 |
'Go 'way ' he said 'You're out of tone ' | - |
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'Why do I pay my rates ' I yelled | I2 |
'What are policemen for | O2 |
Come I demand good cop demand | I2 |
Protection from the law ' | - |
'You're out of drorin' too ' said he | J2 |
'Still s'pose I better go an' see ' | - |
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I guided him a down the street | I2 |
And now he stayed to view | P2 |
The changing sky and now he paused | I2 |
Before some aspect new | P2 |
And thus at length we gained my gate | I2 |
'Too late ' I cried 'Alas too late ' | - |
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Too late to save my household gods | Q2 |
My treasures rich and rare | X |
My ransacked cupboards yawned agape | R2 |
My sideboard too was bare | X |
And there beside my tumbled couch | B |
My trousers lay with rifled pouch | B |
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'Now haste thee cop ' I called again | G |
'Let not thy footsteps lag | S2 |
The thief can not be far away | T2 |
Haste to regain the swag ' | - |
His arms I saw him outward fling | K2 |
He moaned 'Where did you get that thing ' | - |
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With startled state I looked to where | X |
His anguished gaze was bent | I2 |
And hanging by my wardrobe was | U2 |
A Christmas Supplement | I2 |
A thing I'd got for little price | O |
And framed because I thought it nice | O |
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It was a Coloured Supplement | I2 |
The frame I thought was neat | I2 |
It showed a dog a little maid | I2 |
Whose face was very sweet | I2 |
A kitten and some odds and ends | V2 |
The title rather apt was 'Friends ' | - |
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'Accursed Philistine ' I heard | I2 |
The strange policeman hiss | W2 |
Between his teeth 'O wretched man | T |
Was I hired here for this | W2 |
O Goth Suburbanite Repent | I2 |
Tear down that Christmas Supplement ' | - |
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And as athwart my burgled pane | X2 |
The tortured storm wrack raced | I2 |
He bowed his head upon his hands | Y2 |
And wept and wept and wept | I2 |
So on the whole it seems to me | J2 |
Art and policemen don't agree | J2 |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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