To A Stuffed Shirt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL| On the tide you ride head high | A |
| Like a whale 'mid little fishes | B |
| I should envy you as I | A |
| Help my wife to wash the dishes | B |
| Yet frock coat and stove pipe hat | C |
| Cannot hide your folds of fat | C |
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| You are reckoned a success | D |
| And the public praise you win | E |
| There's your picture in the Press | D |
| Pouchy eyes and triple chin | E |
| Wealth of it you fairly stink | F |
| Health what does your Doctor think | F |
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| Dignity is phoney stuff | G |
| Who is dignified deep down | H |
| Strip the pants off call the bluff | G |
| Common clay are king and clown | H |
| Let a bulging belly be | I |
| Your best bid for dignity | I |
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| Miserable millionaire | J |
| For indulgence you must pay | K |
| Yet there's salvation in prayer | J |
| Down on your fat knees and pray | K |
| Know that with your dying breath | L |
| There is dignity in death | L |
Robert William Service
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