This Momentous Mummery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCC DEDDEFF GHGGHII JKJJKKK| Well I don't know Maybe it's quite all right | A |
| And maybe it is I who am perverse | B |
| Finding in this unedifying sight | A |
| Mere mummery and hearing but a blight | A |
| Of words and frowsty fustian or worse | B |
| Maybe I'm wrong and homosapiens yet | C |
| Among the sentient stays wise Nature's pet | C |
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| First the exordium restrained and grim | D |
| Stirring emotions spreading subtle spells | E |
| And then the swelling voice the waving limb | D |
| The flashing eye the pep the yells the vim | D |
| The crashing peroration and hell's bells | E |
| Old stuff so I was once led to suppose | F |
| Archaic stuff and yet it goes it goes | F |
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| Once Epictetus or well shall we say | G |
| Marcus Aurelius stirred in me a hope | H |
| As reason grew and error fell away | G |
| Giants might rise to lead us in our day | G |
| Out of this darkened maze in which men grope | H |
| But now I know the man who gets that job | I |
| Is he who can spellbind the muddied mob | I |
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| But life's a paradox Mayhap I'm wrong | J |
| In seeking guidance from the enlightened wise | K |
| Looking for leaders in the sanely strong | J |
| To spread sweet reason 'mid the puzzled throng | J |
| A paradox all men must recognise | K |
| And it may be our world shall yet give thanks | K |
| And owe salvation to its mountebanks | K |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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