Tobacco Next Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBD ABABBCBD ABABBCBD E BCBD| They took away your drink from you | A |
| The kind old humanizing glass | B |
| Soon they will take tobacco too | A |
| And next they'll take our demi tasse | B |
| Don't say The bill will never pass | B |
| Nor this my warning word disdain | C |
| You said it once you silly ass | B |
| Don't make the same mistake again | D |
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| We know them now the bloodless crew | A |
| We know them all too well alas | B |
| There's nothing that they wouldn't do | A |
| To make the world a Bible class | B |
| Though against bottled beer or Bass | B |
| I search the sacred text in vain | C |
| To find a whisper by the Mass | B |
| Don't make the same mistake again | D |
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| Beware these legislators blue | A |
| Pouring their moral poison gas | B |
| On all the joys our fathers knew | A |
| The very flowers in the grass | B |
| Are safe no more and lad and lass | B |
| 'Ware the old birch rod and the cane | C |
| Here comes our modern Hudibras | B |
| Don't make the same mistake again | D |
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| ENVOI | E |
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| Prince vanished is the rail of brass | B |
| So mark me well and my refrain | C |
| Tobacco next you silly ass | B |
| Don't make the same mistake again | D |
Richard Le Gallienne
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