Spats Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHGHIJI KLKMNON PQPQRERE| When young I was a Socialist | A |
| Despite my tender years | B |
| No blessed chance I ever missed | C |
| To slam the profiteers | B |
| Yet though a fanatic I was | D |
| And cursed aristocrats | E |
| The Party chucked me out because | F |
| I sported Spats | E |
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| Aye though on soap boxes I stood | G |
| And spouted in the parks | H |
| They grizzled that my foot wear would | G |
| Be disavowed my Marx | H |
| It's buttons of a pearly sheen | I |
| Bourgois they deemed and thus | J |
| They told me 'You must choose between | I |
| Your spats and us ' | - |
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| Alas I loved my gaitered feet | K |
| Of smoothly fitting fawn | L |
| They were so snappy and so neat | K |
| A gift from Uncle John | M |
| Who had a fortune in the Bank | N |
| That one day might be mine | O |
| 'Give up my spats ' said I 'I thank | N |
| You but resign ' | - |
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| Today when red or pink I see | P |
| In stripy pants of state | Q |
| I think of how they lost in me | P |
| A demon of debate | Q |
| I muse as leaders strut about | R |
| In frock coats and high hats | E |
| The bloody party chucked me out | R |
| Because of Spats | E |
Robert William Service
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