A Psalm Of Resignation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB BBBBDDDB EEEBBBBB FFFBBBBB GGGBHHCB IIIBJJJB BBBKKK LLBMMMB BBBBBBBB| In spite of his imposing plea | A |
| A freeman whom the truth makes free | A |
| Is often fairly up a tree | A |
| And marvels why it should be thus | B |
| Then reasoning in his tin pot way | C |
| That honesty can never pay | C |
| He loses faith as well he may | C |
| Yet he has simply Miss'd the 'Bus | B |
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| Concerning noodles who profess | B |
| By moral rules to gauge success | B |
| Their thinking tackle's in a mess | B |
| And they are wrong to Tartarus | B |
| Don't say the worthiest lead the van | D |
| That gag is deader than Queen Anne | D |
| If it were straight no honest man | D |
| Need grieve that he had Miss'd the 'Bus | B |
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| All are alike in Satan's grip | E |
| If we accept your Shakespeare's tip | E |
| Who hints per Hamlet that the whip | E |
| Is earned by every one of us | B |
| Which is absurd as Euclid says | B |
| For all have good and evil traits | B |
| Though some go smoothly all their days | B |
| And some are doom'd to Miss the 'Bus | B |
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| Even the Yiddish Sage confess'd | F |
| He had to give this problem best | F |
| Namely to find desert express'd | F |
| In terms of Need and Overplus | B |
| He saw not damper to the wise | B |
| Nor gonce to men of enterprise | B |
| But Buckley's prospect of a rise | B |
| For anyone who Miss'd the 'Bus | B |
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| What agencies manipulate | G |
| This economic drafting gate | G |
| Through which we pass to find our fate | G |
| It would be futile to discuss | B |
| But any man with half an eye | H |
| Can see that mysteries underlie | H |
| The great 'Whaffor' the age long 'Why' | C |
| Required by those who Miss the 'Bus | B |
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| Some swell coves narrow'd by their luck | I |
| In Evolution's rut are stuck | I |
| Like that wool bearing reptile duck | I |
| Which bushmen term the platterpuss | B |
| Whilst in our class we often find | J |
| A stubborn attitude of mind | J |
| Attending the demnition grind | J |
| Dealt out to those who Miss the 'Bus | B |
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| 'Read Samuel Smiles you dreaming flats ' | - |
| Say thrift apostles through their hats | B |
| But wearily we answer 'Rats | B |
| It's not worth while to make a fuss | B |
| Preach us no Self made Merchant's creed | K |
| Columbia's Curse which holds indeed | K |
| That we should loot our fellow weed | K |
| And help him but to Miss the 'Bus ' | - |
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| Again we could 'arise awake ' | - |
| And whoop with devil brake | L |
| But no improvement should we make | L |
| No more than doth the hairy Russ | B |
| If we decline to act the goat | M |
| But sanely think resolve and VOTE | M |
| Then doubtless we shall keep afloat | M |
| And Johnny need not Miss the 'Bus | B |
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| This seems to summarise our case | B |
| I hope we carry it with grace | B |
| Acknowledging in Fate's embrace | B |
| The nelson of an octopus | B |
| And when the Last Conveyance comes | B |
| Neither the swell who pots the plums | B |
| Nor we who fossick round for crumbs | B |
| Shall be allowed to Miss the 'Bus | B |
Joseph Furphy
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