Epitah On The Politician Himself Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCC D EEFF G BBCC H II J DD| A | |
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| Here richly with ridiculous display | B |
| The Politician's corpse was laid away | B |
| While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged | C |
| I wept for I had longed to see him hanged | C |
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| Another on the Same | D |
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| This the last ornament among the peers | E |
| Bribed bullied swindled and blackmailed for years | E |
| But Death's what even Politicians fail | F |
| To bribe or swindle bully or blackmail | F |
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| On Another Politician | G |
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| The Politician dead and turned to clay | B |
| Will make a clout to keep the wind away | B |
| I am not fond of draughts and yet I doubt | C |
| If I could get myself to touch that clout | C |
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| On Yet Another | H |
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| Fame to her darling Shifter glory gives | I |
| And Shifter is immortal while he lives | I |
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| Epitah Upon Himself | J |
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| Lauda tu Ilarion audacem et splendidum | D |
| Who was always beginning things and never ended 'em | D |
Hilaire Belloc
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