Alf-s Eighth Bit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCA AAADEEA BABAEFA AGAGBBB HEHEIBB| Vex not thou the banker's mind | A |
| His what with a show of sense | B |
| Vex it not Willie his mind | A |
| Or pierce its pretence | B |
| On the supposition that it ever | C |
| Was other or that this cheerful giver | C |
| Will give save to the blind | A |
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| Come not anear the dark browed sophist | A |
| Who on the so well paid ground | A |
| Will cheerfully tell you a fist is no fist | A |
| Come not here | D |
| With and making in reason | E |
| Knowest thou not the truth is never in season | E |
| In these quarters or Fleet St | A |
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| In his eye there is death I mean the banker's | B |
| In his purse there is deceit | A |
| It is he who buys gold braid for the swankers | B |
| And gives you Australian iced rabbits' meat | A |
| In place of the roast beef of Britain | E |
| And leaves you a park bench to sit on | F |
| If you git off the Embankment | A |
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| This is the kind of tone and Solemnity | A |
| That used to be used on the young | G |
| My old man got no indemnity | A |
| But he swaller'd his tongue | G |
| Like all his class was told to hold it in those days | B |
| To mind their p s and their q s and their ways | B |
| An' be thankful for occasional holidays | B |
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| I don't quite see the joke any more | H |
| Or why we should stand to attention | E |
| And lick the dirt off the floor | H |
| In the hope of honourable mention | E |
| From a great employer like Selfridge | I |
| Or a buyer of space in the papers | B |
| I'm getting too old for such capers | B |
Ezra Pound
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