The Wonders Of The One Pound Note Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCDDEE FFGGHHIIJJFFKKFHHLLC MMNOPNOOFFMM FOOOFMMFMFOOFFLQFMM| Brothers | A |
| You with but a sixpence in your pocket and you with half a 'quid ' and | B |
| you with a solid bank balance and sundry others | A |
| Let not the cares of money e'er oppress you | C |
| Today I would address you | C |
| Upon the wonders of the one pound note | D |
| And in the words that someone one day wrote | D |
| Across its face | E |
| I trust my words will not be out of place | E |
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| Have you e'er given our pound note a glance | F |
| When you have had a chance | F |
| Artistic ain't it | G |
| I wonder what aesthete they got to paint it | G |
| Doesn't its face attract you and its smile | H |
| Lure you to love and fondle it a while | H |
| The brief while that 'tis with you Don't you feel | I |
| It has a certain shall we say appeal | I |
| And have you ever | J |
| Marvelled at all that intricate and clever | J |
| That wonderful arrangement of the 'ones' | F |
| That pop up in tne most unexpected places | F |
| There are so many there | K |
| That just to count them makes you feel almost a millionaire | K |
| And have you ever noticed how its face is | F |
| Adorned with divers writings in quaint style | H |
| Brothers those writing often make me smile | H |
| Is it indeed a sin to copy such | L |
| It doesn't matter much | L |
| But as a writer I'm interested in the subject and up to the time those few | C |
| lines were indited | M |
| I've never heard that note was copyrighted | M |
| But still why need we quarrel | N |
| About that matter But what I have been trying to say all this time is that I | O |
| consider that the pound note beloved though it be by all classes of the | P |
| community is in some senses highly immoral | N |
| For why | O |
| It tells a lie | O |
| What does it say | F |
| 'I the Commonwealth treasurer promise to pay | F |
| 'One pound in gold' | M |
| Oh brothers How can such vain things be told | M |
| 'Upon demand' he prints DEMAND in 'caps ' | - |
| But will he pay Perhaps | F |
| Why brothers Why | O |
| Go up and try | O |
| Go up into the lordly treasuree | O |
| And ask to see | F |
| The Treasurer and there and then unfold | M |
| The tale of your dire need for gold | M |
| The man won't dare to look you in the face | F |
| Demand as he invites you to insist reason argue shout yell your demand | M |
| at him and he'll probably have you kicked out of the place | F |
| Now brothers is that fair | O |
| I know there was a catch in there somewhere | O |
| So next time that you Bills and Bens and Hals and Toms amd Dicks and Timothys | F |
| and Thomases | F |
| Kid yourselves that you are well off consider it is not wealth splosh | L |
| spondulicks brass beans dough that you possess but merely a pocketful of | Q |
| worthless promises | F |
| The man won't recognise that note he hates it | M |
| Yet gaols the flatterer who imitates it | M |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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