Cricket Is A Serious Thing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ABABBCBC| In politics there s room for jest | A |
| With frequent gibes are speeches met | B |
| And measures which are of the best | A |
| Are themes for caustic humor yet | B |
| E en though the pulpiteer we fret | B |
| With sundry quiddities we fling | C |
| We pray you never to forget | B |
| That cricket is a serious thing | C |
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| The crowd assembles at a Test | A |
| And Hobbs at length is fairly set | B |
| Though Gregory rocks em in with zest | A |
| The barrackers may fume and fret | B |
| When Parkin has contrived to get | B |
| Five men of ours we feel the sting | C |
| And give expression to regret | B |
| For cricket is a serious thing | C |
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| They have the lead we would arrest | A |
| A sort of rot No epithet | B |
| Is proper though they ve got our best | A |
| For next to nothing and your bet | B |
| Is good as lost Don t sit and sweat | B |
| Due reverence to the problem bring | C |
| We have a pile of runs to net | B |
| Ah cricket is a serious thing | C |
Edward George Dyson
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