The Secret Police Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDD E FGHIIJ K LJMNOPDQRSTNUV| They are listening in the wires | A |
| in the walls under the eaves | B |
| in the wings of house martins | C |
| in the ears of old women | D |
| in the mouths of children | D |
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| They are listening to this now | E |
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| So let's hear it for the secret police | F |
| a much misunderstood minority | G |
| After all they have their rights | H |
| their own particular ways of seeing things | I |
| saying things cooking things | I |
| they too have a culture uniquely their own | J |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp And we think | K |
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| they should have their own state | L |
| where they could speak their own | J |
| incomprehensible tongues write | M |
| their confessions their own unknown histories | N |
| cultivate their habits of watching | O |
| by watching each other and fly | P |
| their own flags there at attention | D |
| on parade in their medals at their monuments | Q |
| on their secret anniversaries making speeches | R |
| singing praises to the God of Paranoia | S |
| And at the end of the day | T |
| bury their dead publish coded obituaries | N |
| to each other and rest at last | U |
| in their own kind of peace forever | V |
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