Americanisation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFGFDD HHIHJK LMNMDD HOPOQQ| Britannia needs no Boulevards | A |
| No spaces wide and gay | B |
| Her march was through the crooked streets | C |
| Along the narrow way | B |
| Nor looks she where New York's seduction | D |
| The Broadway leadeth to destruction | D |
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| Britannia needs no Cafes | E |
| If Coffee needs must be | F |
| Its place should be the Coffee house | G |
| Where Johnson growled for Tea | F |
| But who can hear that human mountain | D |
| Growl for an ice cream soda fountain | D |
| - | |
| She needs no Russian Theatrey | H |
| Mere Father strangles Mother | H |
| In scenes where all the characters | I |
| And colours kill each other | H |
| Her boast is freedom had by halves | J |
| And Britons never shall be Slavs | K |
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| But if not hers the Dance of Death | L |
| Great Dostoievsky's dance | M |
| And if the things most finely French | N |
| Are better done in France | M |
| Might not Americanisation | D |
| Be best applied to its own nation | D |
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| Ere every shop shall be a store | H |
| And every Trade a Trust | O |
| Lo many men in many lands | P |
| Know when their cause is just | O |
| There will be quite a large attendance | Q |
| When we Declare our Independence | Q |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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