The Wicket Cricket Critic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBCCDAAE AAFGGFAADAAD AACDECAAAAAA| If the cricket critics' nagging | A |
| Merits stern official gagging | A |
| Which I doubt | B |
| How would critical ascetics | C |
| With their prosy homiletics | C |
| Shut it out | B |
| And the question then arises | C |
| If more cricketing surprises | C |
| Such as bodyline begin to threaten cricket | D |
| And another stunt when sprung | A |
| Call for clicking of the tongue | A |
| Should a cricket critic critically click it | E |
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| When the barrackers grow lyric | A |
| In a manner most satiric | A |
| And profane | F |
| How one ventures still to wonder | G |
| May the clamor be kept under | G |
| How restrain | F |
| For one barbaric larrik | A |
| In can do a lot of barrack | A |
| In' and cause a lot of worry at the wicket | D |
| But would sportsmen be abusing | A |
| Cricket canons in refusing | A |
| To supply that cricket critic with a ticket | D |
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| As a critic analytic | A |
| Of the cricket critics' critic | A |
| I would say | C |
| When we criticise their cricket | D |
| Then the players have to stick it | E |
| Come what may | C |
| No specific soporific | A |
| May be used for it is diffic | A |
| Ult to strike a critic partly paralytic | A |
| So there's nothing gained in seeking | A |
| As I know and I am speaking | A |
| As a critic of the cricket critic's critic | A |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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