A Psalm Of Fortitude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAAB CBCCCB DBDD B EBEEEB FBFFFB GBG GB HBHHHB IBIIIB JBJJJB| Are you like me a peevish brat | A |
| With feelings extra fine | B |
| Are you disposed to whip the cat | A |
| When misadventure lays your flat | A |
| Then paste this memo in your hat | A |
| A Man Should Never Whine | B |
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| The axiom is no safeguard rare | C |
| Nor talisman divine | B |
| For deaf to bounce as well as prayer | C |
| Grim Fate will never turn a hair | C |
| But still the principle is there | C |
| A Man Should Never Whine | B |
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| When 'Answers' spurns your doggerel lay | D |
| He often baskets mine | B |
| And balks you of renown and pay | D |
| Squirm not but laugh and darkly say | D |
| 'Ha tyrant there will come a day ' | - |
| A Bard Should Never Whine | B |
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| Should Gladys freeze you from her sight | E |
| Don't languish or repine | B |
| But let her know in terms polite | E |
| That she has made your future bright | E |
| Then marry Ermyntrude for spite | E |
| A Bloque Should Never Whine | B |
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| A killing frost may nip your buds | F |
| There's Wolsey as a sign | B |
| You may forego your stylish duds | F |
| And trade away your pin and studs | F |
| To live on bandicooted spuds | F |
| But you Must Never Whine | B |
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| Religiously your cake is dough | G |
| You haven't walk'd the line | B |
| Peter won't know you from a crow | G |
| So your address must be 'Below ' | - |
| Where Socialists and such like go | G |
| Still You Must Never Whine | B |
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| But even should Repentance come | H |
| Don't supplicate and pine | B |
| Seek out the corybantic scrum | H |
| And caper round the mighty drum | H |
| And make Salvation fairly hum | H |
| A Saint Should Never Whine | B |
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| Beneath such petty details lies | I |
| Calm Nature's great design | B |
| That we on stepping stones should rise | I |
| And any decent chap who tries | I |
| To score some points before he dies | I |
| Can Surely Never Whine | B |
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| Things standing thus it is not nice | J |
| To rate yourself a swine | B |
| Just let this argument suffice | J |
| An abject whimper cuts no ice | J |
| But only tends to lower your price | J |
| A Man Should Never Whine | B |
Joseph Furphy
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