Songs Of Education: Iv. Citizenship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDC EEFGGF HIJKKK LLKHIK MMKKKK NNOKKO| Form Sub Section Q | A |
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| How slowly learns the child at school | B |
| The names of all the nobs that rule | B |
| From Ponsonby to Pennant | C |
| Ere his bewildered mind find rest | D |
| Knowing his host can be a Guest | D |
| His landlord is a Tennant | C |
| - | |
| He knew not at the age of three | E |
| What Lord St Leger next will be | E |
| Or what he was before | F |
| A Primrose in the social swim | G |
| A Mr Primrose is to him | G |
| And he is nothing more | F |
| - | |
| But soon about the age of ten | H |
| He finds he is a Citizen | I |
| And knows his way about | J |
| Can pause within or just beyond | K |
| The line 'twixt Mond and Demi Mond | K |
| 'Twixt Getting On or Out | K |
| - | |
| The Citizen will take his share | L |
| In every sense as bull and bear | L |
| Nor need this oral ditty | K |
| Invoke the philologic pen | H |
| To show you that a Citizen | I |
| Means Something in the City | K |
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| Thus gains he with the virile gown | M |
| The fasces and the civic crown | M |
| The forum of the free | K |
| Not more to Rome's high law allied | K |
| Is Devonport in all his pride | K |
| Or Lipton's self than he | K |
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| For he will learn if he will try | N |
| The deep interior truths whereby | N |
| We rule the Commonwealth | O |
| What is the Food Controller's fee | K |
| And whether the Health Ministry | K |
| Are in it for their health | O |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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