John Milton Hayes

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You Know What I Mean Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFGHHDD IICCJJDD KKLLMMNDODPDD

I've noticed this happen when everything is blackA
When I'm down below zero and cannot get backA
When I feel like a sort of a National DebtB
That will go on for ages and never be metB
When my will is all bagged at the knees and dead beatC
It is then don't you know that I'm certain to meetC
With some prodigal lifeless dejected old beanD
Who is worse off than I you know what I meanD
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Someone or other who's entered the raceE
With a sense of intention but can't stay the paceE
He tells all his troubles and heaven knows whatF
Talks about Fate and all that sort of rotG
And it makes all my own little troubles look smallH
Till I find I've no cause to be worried at allH
And it doesn't seem cricket to grouse when I've seenD
That he's worse off than I you know what I meanD
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No matter how hard one may fall down the hillI
There's always a somebody lower down stillI
And it makes you feel well it seems mean to repeatC
All your own little troubles to people you meetC
One learns in the end that self pity's a curseJ
And to talk of your cares only makes them seem worseJ
It takes courage to stand where it's easy to leanD
But it makes you feel better you know what I meanD
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The chap we all like is the chap who can smileK
Though his heart may be breaking with sorrow the whileK
He just keeps them all secretly locked in his breastL
Keep's the worm to himself gives the world of his bestL
He has losses like we have yet never gives inM
But goes silently back to his task with a grinM
And the lesson we learn from this priceless old beingN
Is to smile all the while with some laughs in betweenD
Though you're empty and broke meet your fate with a jokeO
For the sake of the folk who can't see what you meanD
And it may be in turn even they will yet learnP
And they'll smile all the while when they see what you meanD
Do you get me Ah well that's what I meanD

John Milton Hayes



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