Important People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBDBD EBEBFGFG HIHIJKJK LBLBMNMN| The success of the Scout movement throughout the whole world has been amply proven by the present triumphant gathering in Melbourne | A |
| Great and important people these | B |
| Important far beyond our ken | C |
| Who mark with adult sophistries | B |
| Their serious air of sober men | C |
| Their fancy garb their solemn fuss | B |
| With code and law their tender age | D |
| Soon shall they count for more than us | B |
| Stale actors on an outworn stage | D |
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| They are say we mere children drawn | E |
| By make believe from many lands | B |
| Yet soon at some swift morrow's dawn | E |
| Earth's destiny top these small hands | B |
| Must pass and should their creed prevail | F |
| As well it may for all earth's good | G |
| They shall have triumphed where we fail | F |
| In peace and long sought brotherhood | G |
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| Here rests a new world's shining hope | H |
| And we a mad world's residue | I |
| Doomed lately in dark ways to grope | H |
| May yet thro' them find dreams come true | I |
| Dreams that our blunted senses sought | J |
| To grasp in one exalted hour | K |
| And lost the good for which men fought | J |
| Brought into everlasting flower | K |
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| Important people Who are we | L |
| To greet with patronising smiles | B |
| Their creed of regained chivalry | L |
| We who are cheated by crude wiles | B |
| Of greed and folly and became | M |
| Flotsam forlorn and tempest tossed | N |
| More precious far their childish game | M |
| Than wisdom in our chaos lost | N |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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