Golf Steals Our Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFBBFF BBGGHHAA CCIIAAJJ| Have you seen the golfers airy | A |
| Prancing forth to their vagary | A |
| Just as frisky in their gaiters | B |
| As a flock of Grecian Satyrs | B |
| Looking everything heroic | C |
| And magnificently stoic | C |
| In a dress of such a pattern | D |
| As would fright the good God Saturn | D |
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| Have you heard them curse the sparrow | E |
| Fit to freeze your inmost marrow | E |
| When the ball that should be flitting | F |
| On the grass remaineth sitting | F |
| Have you watched their cheerful scrambles | B |
| In the soft and soothing brambles | B |
| While the foe elate and sneering | F |
| Passes gradually from hearing | F |
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| After blaming all the witches | B |
| After rending holes in breeches | B |
| After getting in a muddle | G |
| With each rivulet and puddle | G |
| They return a ll labour ended | H |
| To record their prowess splendid | H |
| And renew by dictionary | A |
| Their fatigued vocabulary | A |
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| Let these gentlemen ecstatic | C |
| In their costumes so emphatic | C |
| Crawl to find a rounded treasure | I |
| In the horse pond at their pleasure | I |
| What so good when time is sunny | A |
| And the air as sweet as honey | A |
| At the game of crease and wicket | J |
| England's proper pastime Cricket | J |
Norman Rowland Gale
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