Tussaud's Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEF GHI JJKLMNOM PCAQR STUC CVC WNMXYZ NG S UA2 B2QS C2D2E2C WF2G2 UF2H2 D2S I2C| In the wax museum with Attila and Genghis and Tamerlane all so | A |
| close in spirit with our century | B |
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| At Madame Tussaud's in London Neill Cream Burke and Hare It's | C |
| hard to keep the legitimate heroes straight from the villains I expect | D |
| Houdini to make this Niagara Falls and appear at midnight | E |
| Halloween | F |
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| With so many real and picturesque notables in abundance I plan | G |
| the idea of creating my own arch criminal wax museum assembled | H |
| from the hallways and stairwells of my own life | I |
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| I imagine employment counsellors from across the years with sardonic | J |
| laughs and strings tripping off records to make them authentic | J |
| Then busts of fiendish ex teachers and hatchet fanatics that | K |
| pass as librarians giving me advanced nausea because my card | L |
| has technically expired Think the occasional gesture at remembering | M |
| a swine or two from freeway driving might not be entirely out of | N |
| place or that mindless clerks administering my life from afar and | O |
| costing a future deserve an enshrining | M |
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| A nickel short droned the bureaucrat no transfer secures him | P |
| passage to my waxworks | C |
| Sorry and we'll certainly keep you in mind as a litany of woe | A |
| with its users made to memorize and make good all promises ever | Q |
| made | R |
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| Wish the mind and her memories could be enlarged I would recreate | S |
| my own historic scenes to stand alongside Nelson's Death | T |
| the Little Princes in the Tower Detail Israeli Nazi hunters to | U |
| track down my Adolf Eichmanns | C |
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| Instead of samples from Jack the Ripper's handwriting in the waxworks | C |
| rejection slips and the stylized flowery we'll keep your | V |
| application on file would be served up as horror epics | C |
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| Dunces that compose form letters made to live out the threadbare | W |
| future promises Each human roadblock making decisions out of | N |
| ignorance would have his statement dutifully recorded before entering | M |
| a world of his own design | X |
| Ad agency types made to explain in effortless detail to packed | Y |
| houses why their ketchup commercial should stand up | Z |
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| Crooked garage operators made to oil and grease the chassis of | N |
| every car owner hoodwinked since the automobile began | G |
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| Football made a crime punishable by fate | S |
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| Shyster store owners too cheap to bag my newspaper made to | U |
| launder all the soiled white pants across a lifetime | A2 |
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| Tailors that mistakenly think they are being shortchanged | B2 |
| and become vocal made to attend Sartre courses where hell is other | Q |
| people doctrines predominate | S |
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| The huckster the con man those who prey on the multitude | C2 |
| transposed from whatever city of origin then made to tramp the | D2 |
| streets of Toronto where every wrong syllable or misbegotten | E2 |
| accent costs them a dollar of their savings | C |
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| My whole museum a living aviary a subway at rush hour where | W |
| snotty telephone receptionists are fed a steady diet of the Biblical | F2 |
| injunction by words they shall be known | G2 |
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| Well meaning but ignorant people endlessly poking with the you | U |
| should smile more placed in a house of mirrors with durable | F2 |
| cassettes of Laugh In | H2 |
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| Belligerent restaurant owners telling kids they can't use the | D2 |
| washroom then made to mop up the waste they helped create | S |
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| The world a stand up comic throwing away his happy face then | I2 |
| coming to sit in disgust at the unchronicled petty evil of our times | C |
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