Alf-s Tenth Bit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEEFG HHHHIIFF| WIND | A |
| - | |
| Scarce and thin scarce and thin | B |
| The government's excuse | C |
| Never at all will they do | D |
| Aught of the slightest use | C |
| Over the dying half wits blow | E |
| Over the empty headed and the slow | E |
| Marchers not getting forwarder | F |
| While Ramsay MacDonald sleeps sleeps | G |
| - | |
| Fester and rot fester and rot | H |
| And angle and tergiversate | H |
| One thing among all things you will not | H |
| Do that is think before it's too late | H |
| Election will not come very soon | I |
| And those born with a silver spoon | I |
| Will keep it a little longer | F |
| Until the mind of the old nation gets a little stronger | F |
Ezra Pound
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