Alf-s Ninth Bit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DDEF GHIG JKK LMML KKKK KAKA NONOListen my children and you shall hear | A |
The midnight activities of Whats his Name | B |
Scarcely a general now known to fame | B |
Can tell you of that famous day and year | C |
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When feeble Mr Asquith getting old | D |
The destinies of England were almost sold | D |
To a Welsh shifter with an ogling eye | E |
And Whats his name attained nobility | F |
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The Dashing Rupert of the pulping trade | G |
Rough from the virgin forests inviolate | H |
Thus rose in Albion and tickled the State | I |
And where he once set foot right there he stayed | G |
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Old 'Erb was doting so the rumour ran | J |
Ahd Rupert ran the rumour round in wheels | K |
And David's harp let out heart rending squeals | K |
'Find us a harpist DAVID is the man ' | - |
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Dave was the man to sell the shot and shell | L |
And Basil was the Greek that rode around | M |
On sea and land with all convenience found | M |
To sell to sell to sell that's it to SELL | L |
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Destroyers bombs and spitting mitrailleuses | K |
He used to lunch with Balfour in those days | K |
And if the papers seldom sang his praise | K |
The simple Britons never knew he was | K |
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Until a narsty German told them so | K |
Listen my children and you shall hear | A |
Of things that happened very long ago | K |
And scarcely heed one word of what you hear | A |
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Bury it all bury it all well deep | N |
And let the blighters start it all over again | O |
They'll trick you again and again as you sleep | N |
But you shall know that these were the men | O |
Ezra Pound
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