The Final Tax Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDCD CECE CFCF CGCG CHCH CBCB AAIA JKLM| Said Statesman A to Statesman Z | A |
| What can we tax that is not paying | B |
| We're taxing every blessed thing | B |
| Here's what our people are defraying | B |
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| Tariff tax income tax | C |
| Tax on retail sales | D |
| Club tax school tax | C |
| Tax on beers and ales | D |
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| City tax county tax | C |
| Tax on obligations | E |
| War tax wine tax | C |
| Tax on corporations | E |
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| Brewer tax sewer tax | C |
| Tax on motor cars | F |
| Bond tax stock tax | C |
| Tax on liquor bars | F |
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| Bridge tax check tax | C |
| Tax on drugs and pills | G |
| Gas tax ticket tax | C |
| Tax on gifts in wills | G |
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| Poll tax dog tax | C |
| Tax on money loaned | H |
| State tax road tax | C |
| Tax on all things owned | H |
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| Stamp tax land tax | C |
| Tax on wedding ring | B |
| High tax low tax | C |
| Tax on everything | B |
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| Said Statesman A to Statesman Z | A |
| That is the list a pretty bevy | A |
| No thing or act that is untaxed | I |
| There's nothing more on which to levy | A |
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| Said Statesman Z to Statesman A | J |
| The deficit each moment waxes | K |
| This is no time for us to fail | L |
| We will decree a tax on taxes | M |
Ellis Parker Butler
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