The Griefs Of Ancient Gosh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EADDF G HHIIIIJJ KKA LLM NNOOPPQQ RRJJDDJJ| I happened in Gosh on an ancient day | A |
| In the land of Glugs far far away | A |
| Where the skies are green and the grass is pink | B |
| And the citizens rarely troubl'd to think | B |
| Each had a vote they were proud of that | C |
| But they left all else to the Bureaucrat | C |
| Still of course such folly never could be | D |
| In a civilised land this year A D | D |
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| A junior clerk in Department A | E |
| Sent a requisition in one day | A |
| For a mousetrap to Department B | D |
| This came to the ears of Department C | D |
| Whose head said 'Just a moment please | F |
| You control the traps but we the cheese ' | - |
| Then Department D chipped in in a trice | G |
| And cried 'Checkmate We control the mice ' | - |
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| Then Departments E F G H I | H |
| Became involved and the talk ran high | H |
| Till the Livestock Branch got dragged in too | I |
| And the Vermin Board and I don't know who | I |
| Besides till the mousetrap matter grew | I |
| From a mild dispute 'mid a trifling few | I |
| To a Public Question so immense | J |
| That a tax was levied to meet expense | J |
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| Well time rolled on as it ever has rolled | K |
| And the junior clerk now bald and old | K |
| Received a pink form one fine day | A |
| Which said 'One trap mouse Passed O K ' | - |
| But he answered this impatient chap | L |
| Grown peevish too 'Keep your blinkin' trap | L |
| For a trap I made from an old jam tin | M |
| Long since and I caught my mouse therein ' | - |
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| So an issue rose of a different sort | N |
| And they sued the clerk in the State High Court | N |
| Which sat so long and talked such bosh | O |
| That a fierce Dictator loomed in Gosh | O |
| And he took one long deep shuddering breath | P |
| And condemned that junior clerk to death | P |
| And then when they sought the man they found | Q |
| He had been some twelve years underground | Q |
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| Such is the tale But understand | R |
| It happened in Gosh a backward land | R |
| Inhabited then by a race called Glugs | J |
| Free born with a vote but mostly mugs | J |
| For of course such nonsense never could be | D |
| In a modern model Democracy | D |
| Like ours Things never could happen so | J |
| Absurd Or could they Oh I don't know | J |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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