Gentlemen! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE AAFFGGHI AAJJKKLL AAMMNNOO NNPPQQGG NNRRNNKK NNSSHITT NNJJU VV NNWWRRXX| Gentlemen a politician | A |
| One who values his position | A |
| Stands with easy confidence | B |
| Here before you on the fence | C |
| For he knows full well good friends | D |
| All your aims and all your ends | D |
| And that these you may attain | E |
| He will strive with might and main | E |
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| Gentlemen my sole ambition | A |
| Is to see that your condition | A |
| Shall continue to improve | F |
| Wherefore I shall shortly move | F |
| For a special grant to buy | G |
| Extra bedding for your sty | G |
| Force it from the Government | H |
| For the folk I represent | I |
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| Gentlemen You crave nutrition | A |
| And I hold my high position | A |
| By your will and by your votes | J |
| Pollard you shall have and oats | J |
| And I know you'll vote for me | K |
| In elections yet to be | K |
| While I cater for your needs | L |
| Promising yet further feeds | L |
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| Gentlemen The Opposition | A |
| By its frequent repetition | A |
| Of base lies would have you think | M |
| They'd increase your food and drink | M |
| Friends their secret aim I know | N |
| Is to cut your rations low | N |
| And while they but sneer and scoff | O |
| It is we who fill your trough | O |
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| Gentlemen This talk of 'Nation' | N |
| Is a vile abomination | N |
| You are asked to sacrifice | P |
| Food and swill and pay a price | P |
| For a shibboleth like that | Q |
| You are asked to give your fat | Q |
| That your children by and bye | G |
| May possess a better sty | G |
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| Gentlemen The aspiration | N |
| To build up a mighty nation | N |
| Is a question far too big | R |
| For an ordinary pig | R |
| Truly we don't care a damn | N |
| When we're bacon pork or ham | N |
| What the fate of pigs may be | K |
| Let 'em root the same as we | K |
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| Gentlemen This tortured question | N |
| Gives you mental indigestion | N |
| Such vague things you do not heed | S |
| Food in plenty is your need | S |
| In my place in Parliament | H |
| It is you I represent | I |
| And I'll face all vile affronts | T |
| For your sakes Delighted grunts | T |
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| Gentlemen The proposition | N |
| For the honest politician | N |
| Is 'Can I secure more oats | J |
| For the folk who give me votes | J |
| Can I fill their troughs and give | U |
| Mush to them that I may live ' | - |
| To that end he should employ | V |
| All his art Loud squeals of joy | V |
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| Gentlemen A politician | N |
| With my knowledge and position | N |
| Knows full well that such as you | W |
| Take the plain right thinking view | W |
| For himself each fatted pig | R |
| And for all the rest a fig | R |
| Gentlemen I greet your ranks | X |
| And accept your grunt of thanks | X |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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