The Mercenary View Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB DEDEFFFE GHIHJJJH| I knew a poor remittance man | A |
| A decent chap but funny | B |
| In days when my ideas began | A |
| To be controlled by money | B |
| He wore a swank patrician air | C |
| But oh his life was filled with care | C |
| For he had seldom cash to spare | C |
| His mien was far from sunny | B |
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| I fear I was a snobbish youth | D |
| Who led a prig's existence | E |
| I snubbed the chap to tell the truth | D |
| And kept him at a distance | E |
| His clothes well cut were often worn | F |
| Threadbare Tho' he was gently born | F |
| His friendship I refused with scorn | F |
| Despite his soft insistence | E |
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| But now the whirligig of time | G |
| Sees fit to elevate him | H |
| While lo the money that was mine | I |
| Is shrinking seriatim | H |
| And faced by serious mishap | J |
| While he reclines in Fortune's lap | J |
| I'd like to find the dear old chap | J |
| I'd want to cultivate him | H |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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