Committee Meetings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHIFDFD JDJDFDF| For this and that and various things | A |
| It seems that men must get together | B |
| To purchase cups or diamond rings | A |
| Or to discuss the price of leather | B |
| From nine to ten or two to three | C |
| Or any hour that's fast and fleeting | D |
| There is a constant call for me | C |
| To go to some committee meeting | D |
| - | |
| The church has serious work to do | E |
| The lodge and club has need of workers | F |
| They ask for just an hour or two | E |
| Surely I will not join the shirkers | F |
| Though I have duties of my own | G |
| I should not drop before completing | D |
| There comes the call by telephone | G |
| To go to some committee meeting | D |
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| No longer may I eat my lunch | H |
| In quietude and contemplation | I |
| I must foregather with the bunch | H |
| To raise a fund to save the nation | I |
| And I must talk of plans and schemes | F |
| The while a scanty bite I'm eating | D |
| Until I vow to day it seems | F |
| My life is one committee meeting | D |
| - | |
| When over me the night shall fall | J |
| And my poor soul goes upwards winging | D |
| Unto that heavenly realm where all | J |
| Is bright with joy and gay with singing | D |
| I hope to hear St Peter say | F |
| And I shall thank him for the greeting | D |
| 'Come in and rest from day to day | F |
| Here there is no committee meeting ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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