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Will Paget On Demos And Hogos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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To Coroner Merival greetings but a voice	A
Dissentient from much that goes the rounds	B
Concerning Elenor Murray Here's my word	C
Give men and women freedom save the land	D
From dull theocracy the theo what	E
A blend of Demos and Jehovah Say	F
Bring back your despots bring your Louis Fourteenths	F
And give them thrones of gold and ivory	G
From where with leaded sceptres they may whack	H
King Demos driven forth You know the face	F
The temples are like sea shells hollows out	I
Which narrow close the space for cortex cells	F
There would be little brow if hair remained	J
But hair is gone because the dandruff came	K
The eyes are close together like a weasel's	F
The jaws are heavy that is character	L
The mouth is thin and wide to gobble chicken	M
The paunch is heavy for the chickens eaten	M
Throned high upon a soap box Demos rules	F
And mumbles decalogues Thou shalt not read	N
Save what I tell you never books that tell	O
Of men and women as they live and are	P
Thou shalt not see the dramas which portray	F
The evil passions and satiric moods	F
Which mock this Christian nation and its hope	Q
Thou shalt not drink not even wine or beer	R
Thou shalt not play at cards or see the races	F
Thou shalt not be divorced Thou shalt not play	F
Thou shalt not bow to graven images	F
Of beauty cut in marble fused in bronze	F
Behold my name is Demos King of Kings	F
My name is legion I am many come	S
Out of the sea where many hogs were drowned	T
And now the ruler of hogocracy	F
Where in the name of freedom hungry snouts	F
Root up the truffles in your great republic	U
And crunch with heavy jaws the legs and arms	F
Of people who fall over in the pen	V
Hierarchies in my name are planted under	L
Your states political to sprout and take	W
The new world's soil religious freedom this	F
Thought must be free unless your thought objects	F
To such dominion and to literal faith	X
In an old book that never had a place	F
Except beside the Koran Zarathustra	L
So here is your theocracy and here	L
The land of Boredom Do you wonder now	Y
That people cry for war You see that God	Z
Frowns on all games but war You shall not play	F
Or kindle spirit with a rapture save	A2
A moral end's in view All joy is sin	B2
Where joy stands for itself alone nor asks	F
Consent to be save for itself But war	L
Waged to put down the wrong it's always that	C2
To vindicate God's truths all wars are such	D2
Is game that lets the spirit play is backed	E2
By God and moral reasons therefore war	L
A game disguised as business cosmic work	F2
For great millenniums no less relieves	F
The boredom of theocracies But if	G2
Your men and women had the chance to play	F
Be free and spend superfluous energies	F
In what I call the greatest game that's Life	H2
Have life more freely deeply and you say	F
How would you like a war and lose a leg	I2
Or come from battle sick for all your years	F
You would say no unless you saw an issue	F
Stripped clean of Christian twaddle as we'll say	F
The Greeks beheld the Persians Well behold	J2
All honest paganism in such things discarded	K2
For God who comes in glory trampling presses	F
Filled up with grapes of wrath	L2
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Now hear me out	I
I knew we'd have a war it wasn't only	G
That your hogocracy was grunting war	L
We'd fight Japan take Mexico remember	L
How dancing flourished madly in the land	D
Then think of savages who dance the Ghost Dance	F
And cattle lowing rushing in a panic	M2
There's psychic secrets here But then at last	N2
What can you do with life You're well and strong	O2
Flushed with desire mad with appetites	F
You turn this way and find a sign forbidden	M
You turn that way and find the door is closed	P2
Hogocracy King Demos say go back	H
Find work develop character restrain	Q2
Draw up your belt a little tighter hunger	L
And thirst diminish with a tighter belt	R2
And none to say take off the belt and eat	S2
Here's water for you	F
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Well you have a war	L
We used to say in foot ball kick their shins	F
And gouge their eyes out when our shins were kicked	T2
We hollered foul and ouch There was the south	U2
Who called us mud sills in this freer north	V2
And mouthed democracy and as for that	C2
Their churches made of God a battle leader	L
An idea come from Palestine oh yes	F
They soon would wipe us up they were the people	W2
But when we slaughtered them they hollered ouch	X2
And why not For a gun and uniform	Y2
And bands that play are rapturous enough	Z2
But when you get a bullet through the heart	A3
The game is not so funny as it was	F
That's why I hated Germany and hate her	L
And feel we could not let this German culture	L
Spread over earth That culture was but this	F
Life must have an expression and a game	K
And war's the game besides the prize is great	B3
In land and treasure commerce let us play	F
It lets the people's passions have a vent	C3
When fires of life burn hot and hotter under	L
The kettle and the lid is clamped by work	F2
Dull duty daily routine inhibitions	F
Before this Elenor Murray woke to life	H2
LeRoy was stirring but the stir was play	F
It was a Gretna Green and pleasure boats	F
Ran up and down the river on the streets	F
You heard the cry of barkers in the park	D3
The band was playing and you heard the ring	E3
Of registers at fountains and buffets	F
All this was shabby maybe but observe	F3
There are those souls who see the wrath of God	Z
As blackest background to the light of soul	G3
And when the thunder rumbles and the storm	Y2
Comes up with lightning then they say to men	V
Who laugh in bar rooms Have a care blasphemers	F
You may be struck by lightning here's the root	H3
From which this mood ascetic comes to leaf	I3
In all theocracies and throws a shadow	J3
Upon all freedom	S
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Look at us to day	F
They say to me see what a town we have	K3
The men at work smoke coming from the chimneys	F
The banks full up of money business good	L3
The workmen sober going home at night	M3
No rowdy barkers and no bands a playing	E3
No drinking and no gaming and no vice	F
No marriages contracted to be broken	M
Look how LeRoy is quiet sane and clean	N3
And I reply you like the stir of work	F2
But not the stir of play your chimneys smoke	O3
Your banks have money Let me look behind	P3
The door that closes on your man at home	Q3
The wife and children there what shall I find	P3
A sick man looks to health as it were all	R3
But when the fever leaves him and he feels	F
The store of strength in muscles slumbering	E3
And waiting to be used then something else	F
Than health is needful he must have a way	F
To voice the life within him and he wonders	F
Why health seemed so desirable before	L
And all sufficient to him	S3
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Take this girl	T3
Why do you marvel that she rode at night	M3
With any man who came along Good God	Z
If I were born a woman and they put me	G
In a theocracy hogocracy	F
I'd do the first thing that came in my mind	P3
To give my soul expression Don't you think	U3
You're something of a bully and a coward	C
To ask such model living from this girl	T3
When you my grunting hogos run the land	D
And bring us scandals like the times of Grant	V3
And poisoned beef sold to the soldier boys	F
When we were warring Spain and all this stuff	Z2
Concerning loot and plunder malversation	N3
That riots in your cities printed daily	G
I roll the panoramic story out	I
To Washington the great what do I see	G
It's tangle foot the sticky smear is dry	L
But I can find wings legs and heads remember	L
How little flies and big were buzzing once	F
Of God and duty country virtue faith	X
And beating wings already gummed with sweet	S2
Until their little bellies touched the glue	F
They sought to fill their bellies with at last	N2
Long silence which is history scroll rolled up	W3
And spoken of in sacred whispers	F
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Well	O
I'm glad that Elenor Murray had her fling	E3
If that be really true I understand	D
What drove her to the war I think she knew	F
Too much to marry settle down and live	X3
Under the rule of Demos or of Hogos	F
I wish we had a dozen Elenor Murrays	F
In every village in this land of Demos	F
To down Theocracy which is just as bad	Y3
As Prussianism is no different	Z3
From Prussianism And I fear but this	F
As fruitage of the war that men and women	N3
Will have burnt on their souls the words ceramic	M2
That war's the thing and this theocracy	F
Where generous outlets for the soul are stopped	A4
Will keep the words in mind When boredom comes	F
And grows intolerable you'll see the land	D
Go forth to war to get a thrill and live	X3
Unless we work for freedom for delight	M3
And self expression	N3
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Dwight Henry is another writer of letters	F
Stirred by the Murray inquest writes a screed	B4
The House that Jack Built read by Merival	O
To entertain his jury in these words	F