Safe And Sound Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CDED FGHG FIJJ KLFL HMNM HHHH| My name is Nunty Cormorant | A |
| And my finance is sound | B |
| I lend you Englishmen hot air | C |
| At one and three the pound | B |
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| I lend you Englishmen hot air | C |
| And I get all the beef | D |
| While you stalwart sheep of freedom | E |
| Are on the poor relief | D |
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| Wot oh my buxom hearties | F |
| What ain't got work no more | G |
| And don't know what bug is a bitin' | H |
| To keep your feelin's sore | G |
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| There is blokes in automobiles | F |
| And their necks sunk into fur | I |
| That keep on gettin' usury | J |
| To make 'em cosier | J |
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| I read these fellers puts it | K |
| Most tidily away | L |
| And then lends out their printed slips | F |
| To keep the wolf away | L |
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| From the vaults and combination | H |
| Safes in Thread and Needle street | M |
| I wouldn't 'ave the needle | N |
| If I had more grub to eat | M |
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| Oh the needle is your portion | H |
| My sufferin' fellow men | H |
| Till the King shall take the notion | H |
| To own his coin again | H |
Ezra Pound
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