Alf-s Ninth Bit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DDEF GHIG JKK LMML KKKK KAKA NONO| Listen 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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