Our Rampant Coat-of-arms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFFE GHIHJJJH AKLKBBBK MNBNGGGN| The Lion and the Unicorn | A |
| Of England's Coat of Arms | B |
| Seldom make bold so we are told | C |
| To ravage English farms | B |
| In fact 'tis said by travellers | D |
| Who lately have been there | E |
| That lions hardly ever roam | F |
| About the dales and dells at Home | F |
| And unicorns are rare | E |
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| But in this topsy turvy land | G |
| Where often inter alia | H |
| Strange forms of bird in ways absurd | I |
| Are grafted to mammalia | H |
| And beasts have bills to fit the goose | J |
| Our crazy Coat of Arms breaks loose | J |
| To roam at night and play the deuce | J |
| 'Mid farmers in Australia | H |
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| The Lion and the Unicorn | A |
| Stay put and emplematic | K |
| But kangaroos bluntly refuse | L |
| To function staid and static | K |
| And emus stray to ruin farms | B |
| Raising excursions and alarms | B |
| Which proves such things on Coats of Arms | B |
| Are plainly too erratic | K |
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| Far better chain them to the shield | M |
| Like unicorns in Britain | N |
| Else by what chance may we 'advance' | B |
| As in the motto written | N |
| If not and they get out of hand | G |
| Before the nations we must stand | G |
| Ever a topsy turvy land | G |
| By its own emblem smitten | N |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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