Alf-s Fifth Bit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GH H IJIJJ| The pomps of butchery financial power | A |
| Told 'em to die in war and then to save | B |
| Then cut their saving to the half or lower | A |
| When will this system lie down in its grave | B |
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| The pomps of Fleet St festering year on year | C |
| Hid truth and lied and lied and hid the facts | D |
| The pimps of Whitehall ever more in fear | C |
| Hid health statistics dodged the Labour Acts | D |
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| All drew their pay and as the pay grew less | E |
| The money rotten and more rotten yet | F |
| Hid more statistics more feared to confess | E |
| C C 'twere better to forget | F |
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| How many weak of mind how much tuberculosis | G |
| Filled the back alleys and the back to back houses | H |
| 'The medical report this week discloses ' | - |
| 'Time for that question ' Front Bench interposes | H |
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| Time for that question and the time is NOW | I |
| Who ate the profits and who locked 'em in | J |
| The unsafe safe wherein all rots and no man can say how | I |
| What was the nation's now by Norman's kin | J |
| Is one day blown up large the next ducked in | J |
Ezra Pound
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