No Neck-tie Party Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFBBB BBGGHIDDBBGG JJKKBBLLDDFF MB| A prisoner speaks | A |
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| Majority of twenty three | B |
| I face the Judge with joy and glee | B |
| For am I not a lucky chap | C |
| No more hanging no more cap | C |
| A lifer yes but well I know | D |
| In fifteen years they'll let me go | D |
| For I'll be pious in my prison | E |
| Sing with gusto Christ Is Risen | E |
| Serve the hymn books out on Sunday | F |
| Sweep the chapel clean on Monday | B |
| Such a model lag I'll be | B |
| In fifteen years they'll set me free | B |
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| Majority of twenty three | B |
| You've helped me cheat the gallows tree | B |
| I'm twenty now at thirty five | G |
| How I will laugh to be alive | G |
| To leap into the world again | H |
| And bless the fools miscalled humane | I |
| Who say the gibbet's wrong and so | D |
| At thirty five they let me go | D |
| Tat I may sail the across the sea | B |
| A killer unsuspect and free | B |
| To change my name to darkly thrive | G |
| By hook or crook at thirty five | G |
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| O silent dark and beastly wood | J |
| Where with my bloodied hands I stood | J |
| O piteous child I raped and slew | K |
| Had she been yours would you and you | K |
| Have pardoned me and set me free | B |
| Majority of twenty three | B |
| Yet by your solemn vote you willed | L |
| I shall not die though I have killed | L |
| Although I did no mercy show | D |
| In mercy you will let me go | D |
| That he who kills and does not pay | F |
| May live to kill another day | F |
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| By a majority of twenty three the House of Commons | M |
| voted the abolition of the death penalty | B |
Robert Service
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