Kal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A BCBCDEDF GHIHJKJK ALALAMAM NONOPQPR| TO MORROW | A |
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| 'Never do To day what can be postponed till To morrow save at the dictates of your personal convenience ' Maxims of the Wicked No | A |
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| Sweet Word by whose unwearying assistance | B |
| We of the Ruling Race when sorely tried | C |
| Can keep intrusive persons at a distance | B |
| And let unseasonable matters slide | C |
| Thou at whose blast the powers of irritation | D |
| Yield to a soft and gentlemanly lull | E |
| Of solid peace and flat Procrastination | D |
| These to thy praise and honour good old Kal | F |
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| For we are greatly plagued by sacrilegious | G |
| Monsters in human form who care for naught | H |
| Save with incessant papers to besiege us | I |
| E'en to the solemn hour of silent thought | H |
| They draw no line the frightful joy of giving | J |
| Pain is their guerdon but for Thee alone | K |
| Life would be hardly worth the bore of living | J |
| No one could call his very soul his own | K |
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| But in thy Name th' importunate besetter | A |
| Meets a repelling force that none can stem | L |
| Varlets may come they do and go they'd better | A |
| Kal is the word that always does for them | L |
| To morrow they may join the usual muster | A |
| To day shall pass inviolably by | M |
| BEELZEBUB Himself for all his bluster | A |
| Would get the same old sickening reply | M |
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| And for thine aid in baffling the malignant | N |
| Who with unholy art conspire to see | O |
| Our ease dis eased our dignity indignant | N |
| We do Thee homage on the bended knee | O |
| And I would add a word of common gratitude | P |
| To those thy coadjutors ao and lao | Q |
| Who take with Thee th' uncompromising attitude | P |
| From which the dullest mind deduces jao | R |
John Kendall (dum-dum)
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