The Old Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB C DEF GH I JKKI BHH BBC LLM NOLOM P QOBO AG| Well there was no problem | A |
| All the democracies | B |
| all the democracies | B |
| - | |
| were behind us | C |
| - | |
| So we had to kill some people | D |
| So what | E |
| Lefties get killed | F |
| - | |
| This is what we used to say | G |
| back in the old days | H |
| - | |
| Your daughter is a lefty | I |
| - | |
| I'll ram this stinking battering ram | J |
| all the way up and up and up and up | K |
| right the way through all the way up | K |
| all the way through her lousy lefty body | I |
| - | |
| So that stopped the lefties | B |
| They may have been the old days | H |
| but I'll tell you they were the good old days | H |
| - | |
| Anyway all the democracies | B |
| all the democracies | B |
| were behind us | C |
| - | |
| They said just don't | L |
| just don't | L |
| tell anyone we're behind you | M |
| - | |
| That's all | N |
| Just don't tell anyone | O |
| just don't | L |
| just don't tell anyone | O |
| we 're behind you | M |
| - | |
| Just kill them | P |
| - | |
| Well my wife wanted peace | Q |
| And so did my little children | O |
| So we killed all the lefties | B |
| to bring peace for our little children | O |
| - | |
| Anyway there was no problem | A |
| Anyway they're all dead anyway | G |
Harold Pinter
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