Down, But Not Out Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDCEF GBHBBIEI BBJBKLML CINIMOP| Oh how I hate these chills these winter ills | A |
| Bleak blasts and breezes | B |
| Abominate the 'flu ' the fierce 'Tishoo' | C |
| All inappropriate sneezes | B |
| How I detest th' uneasy wheezy chest | D |
| Yet tho' the declaration may seem priggish | C |
| Fate I defy and to Cold's cohorts cry | E |
| Indomitable ever 'Ick Ip Iggish ' | F |
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| I dream of coral isles where sunlight smiles | G |
| And high noon blazes | B |
| Where luscious tropic green is vaguely seen | H |
| Thro' dancing hazes | B |
| I long for these and then some biting breeze | B |
| Pierces my being like an icy splinter | I |
| Yet once more I with shrill defiance cry | E |
| And fling taunts in the teeth of woeful Winter | I |
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| I know this dread disease brings me unease | B |
| Most deleterious | B |
| And well indeed I know I often grow | J |
| Slightly delirious | B |
| But all the same nought may my spirit tame | K |
| Fears I have never felt nor eke confessed any | L |
| Tho' some have said I'm partly off my head | M |
| When I bark challenges at brooding Destiny | L |
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| Oft Ip Excuse me Snisch Often I wish | C |
| For sword and buckler | I |
| To slake my seething hate To sneering Fate | N |
| I am no truckler | I |
| Tho' my poor head pain wreathed sinks to the bed | M |
| Ah bleak battalions I would smite and smash you | O |
| For don't forget I am my own man yet | P |
| While my unconquerable soul shouts 'Ack Harrashoo ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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