How Beastly The Bourgeois Is Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EFGHIJ KLMNJJOPQR AB SONNT JFOQ UOA VWLOW| How beastly the bourgeois is | A |
| especially the male of the species | B |
| - | |
| Presentable eminently presentable | C |
| shall I make you a present of him | D |
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| Isn't he handsome Isn't he healthy Isn't he a fine specimen | E |
| Doesn't he look the fresh clean Englishman outside | F |
| Isn't it God's own image tramping his thirty miles a day | G |
| after partridges or a little rubber ball | H |
| wouldn't you like to be like that well off and quite the | I |
| thing | J |
| - | |
| Oh but wait | K |
| Let him meet a new emotion let him be faced with another | L |
| man's need | M |
| let him come home to a bit of moral difficulty let life | N |
| face him with a new demand on his understanding | J |
| and then watch him go soggy like a wet meringue | J |
| Watch him turn into a mess either a fool or a bully | O |
| Just watch the display of him confronted with a new | P |
| demand on his intelligence | Q |
| a new life demand | R |
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| How beastly the bourgeois is | A |
| especially the male of the species | B |
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| Nicely groomed like a mushroom | S |
| standing there so sleek and erect and eyeable | O |
| and like a fungus living on the remains of a bygone life | N |
| sucking his life out of the dead leaves of greater life | N |
| than his own | T |
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| And even so he's stale he's been there too long | J |
| Touch him and you'll find he's all gone inside | F |
| just like an old mushroom all wormy inside and hollow | O |
| under a smooth skin and an upright appearance | Q |
| - | |
| Full of seething wormy hollow feelings | U |
| rather nasty | O |
| How beastly the bourgeois is | A |
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| Standing in their thousands these appearances in damp | V |
| England | W |
| what a pity they can't all be kicked over | L |
| like sickening toadstools and left to melt back swiftly | O |
| into the soil of England | W |
David Herbert Lawrence
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