Old Town Types No. 28 - Lah-di-dah Lane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBAA BBCCBBAA BBDDBBAA EEFFBBAA| In the old town traditions as greybeards will explain | A |
| One epic tale immortalises Lah di dah Lane | A |
| Clerk to a local wheat buyer in the railway yard | B |
| Some deemed him just a 'masher ' but a few said 'knowing card' | B |
| With his waxed moustache his monocle his grey 'hard hitter' hat | B |
| His braided coat of black 'Berlin ' his lavender cravat | B |
| His buttoned boots and finger ring and thin Malacca cane | A |
| Oh a sight on pleasant Sundays was our Lah di dah Lane | A |
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| His manners were meticulous his smile so softly sweet | B |
| That he soon became the butt of every urchin in our street | B |
| But he took their banter calmly and his brow wore ne'er a frown | C |
| Till the bully Turk Trevanion caused a scandal in the town | C |
| A loud mouthed blusterer was Turk a crude sardonic lout | B |
| Who made a set at Lah di dah but failed to draw him out | B |
| Till he used in ladies' hearing words both blasphemous and vain | A |
| Then 'I'll meet you on the wiver flat ' said Lah di dah Lane | A |
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| Discreetly on that Sabbath day the word was passed about | B |
| Till half the town came to the flat to see poor Lane pass out | B |
| And a few expressed their pity but the most of them were there | D |
| To watch in masculine contempt as with most tender care | D |
| He laid aside his monocle his grey 'hard hitter' hat | B |
| His braided coat his collar and his lavender cravat | B |
| And on the pile he neatly laid his thin Malacca cane | A |
| 'Now then I'll thottle you you thwine ' lisped Lah di dah lane | A |
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| Of that Homeric battle townsmen talk with bated breath | E |
| For Lah di dah in action proved a streak of sudden death | E |
| His straight lefts and upper cuts revealed amazing form | F |
| Till Turk a battered bleeding wreck went down before the storm | F |
| Then Lane resumed his monocle his grey 'hard hitter' hat | B |
| His collar and his braided coat his lavender cravat | B |
| And under Turk's incarmined nose wagged his Malacca cane | A |
| 'Take that you bwutal bwawler ' murmured Lah di dah Lane | A |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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