The Anonymous Altruist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDEFGE AHIIHJKLLK AMNNMOPQQP ARSSRTUHVU AWXXWVUYYU| A mysterious cove in the Customs | A |
| The boss so to speak of the Ban | B |
| I have blamed a good deal | C |
| But I wronged him I feel | C |
| Since I've come to imagine the man | B |
| When he censored some book that I wanted | D |
| I sneered at him once I'll allow | E |
| But since I've given heed | F |
| To the life he must lead | G |
| He has all my sympathy now | E |
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| This mysterious cove at the Customs | A |
| Is clearly a martyr that's sure | H |
| On his shoulders he takes | I |
| Loads of sin for our sakes | I |
| And he suffers to keep us all pure | H |
| For he reads all the hot stuff imported | J |
| And never once threatens to strike | K |
| Tho' he loathes it no doubt | L |
| Ah my pity goes out | L |
| To him Think what his mind must be like | K |
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| This anonymous cove at the Customs | A |
| This storehouse for horrible stuff | M |
| Is as venal I'll bet | N |
| As the rest of us yet | N |
| Does he whine that his job is too tough | M |
| No He keeps his identity secret | O |
| His knowledge safe under his hat | P |
| And he lurks all alone | Q |
| Unsuspected unknown | Q |
| Such as the hangmen and heroes like that | P |
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| This incredible cove at the Customs | A |
| His duties are drastic and grim | R |
| For if human he be | S |
| What is poison to me | S |
| Must be equally poison to him | R |
| Yet undaunted he seizes and scoffs it | T |
| And perhaps throws a fit on the floor | U |
| Doped with all the impure | H |
| Of the world's literature | V |
| But he manfully comes up for more | U |
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| This untouchable cove at the Customs | A |
| He sneaks to his work in the dawn | W |
| And in some secret lair | X |
| Reads the spicy bits there | X |
| With his soul as it were all in pawn | W |
| Pity then this official absorber | V |
| Of rank Rabelaisian lore | U |
| Who wallows in sin | Y |
| To protect us his kin | Y |
| Could an altruist ever do more | U |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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