The Dictator Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EDED FE E GHGH IDIJ EKEK EKEK LKLK MKMK NENE EEEE| Avaunt What news is this I hear | A |
| Of portent grim and sinister | B |
| Is he whose words insult mine ear | A |
| A mere upstart Prime Minister | B |
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| Odds fish These fellows hitherto | C |
| Wore no demeanor critical | D |
| But cap in hand have sought my view | C |
| On all affairs political | D |
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| 'Sdeath Has the caitiff not the sense | E |
| To be polite and affable | D |
| Like others whose meek diffidence | E |
| At times was even laughable | D |
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| Aha I made them sore afraid | F |
| They gave my schemes the preference | E |
| And murmured 'Thank you Mister Wade ' | - |
| With low and seemly deference | E |
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| Then I had but to raise my hand | G |
| And ev'ry Fed'ral min i on | H |
| Sprang hastily to my command | G |
| And bowed to my opin i on | H |
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| 'Twas I that granted them the site | I |
| To build their pesky capital | D |
| For if approached with mien polite | I |
| I'm not a fearsome chap at all | J |
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| 'Twasq I dictated all their laws | E |
| And made State Frights substantially | K |
| Their shibboleth I marked the flaws | E |
| What time they schemed financially | K |
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| I bade them to the Conference | E |
| They came with meek humility | K |
| And there I filled them with immense | E |
| Respect for my ability | K |
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| But now this upstart Fisher man | L |
| Intent on irritating me | K |
| Has dared to moot a Fed'ral plan | L |
| Without conciliating me | K |
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| Zounds I have spoken And I speak | M |
| With ominous obscurity | K |
| Let him beware I say Next week | M |
| 'Tis pregnant with futurity | K |
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| Next week Be warned Here in my sleeve | N |
| Are certain things mysterious | E |
| It they be loosened by my leave | N |
| Aha It will be serious | E |
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| I have words of weight and stress | E |
| To tickle your auriculars | E |
| Enough Watch handbills and the press | E |
| For further grim particulars | E |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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