Army Headquarters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF CCBB AACC CCGG CCHC IICC CCCC| Old is the song that I sing | A |
| Old as my unpaid bills | B |
| Old as the chicken that kitmutgars bring | A |
| Men at dak bungalows old as the Hills | B |
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| Ahasuerus Jenkins of the quot Operatic Own quot | C |
| Was dowered with a tenor voice of super Santley tone | D |
| His views on equitation were perhaps a trifle queer | E |
| He had no seat worth mentioning but oh he had an ear | F |
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| He clubbed his wretched company a dozen times a day | C |
| He used to quit his charger in a parabolic way | C |
| His method of saluting was the joy of all beholders | B |
| But Ahasuerus Jenkins had a head upon his shoulders | B |
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| He took two months at Simla when the year was at the spring | A |
| And underneath the deodars eternally did sing | A |
| He warbled like a bul bul but particularly at | C |
| Cornelia Agrippina who was musical and fat | C |
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| She controlled a humble husband who in turn controlled a Dept | C |
| Where Cornelia Agrippina's human singing birds were kept | C |
| From April to October on a plump retaining fee | G |
| Supplied of course per mensem by the Indian Treasury | G |
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| Cornelia used to sing with him and Jenkins used to play | C |
| He praised unblushingly her notes for he was false as they | C |
| So when the winds of April turned the budding roses brown | H |
| Cornelia told her husband quot Tom you mustn't send him down quot | C |
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| They haled him from his regiment which didn't much regret him | I |
| They found for him an office stool and on that stool they set him | I |
| To play with maps and catalogues three idle hours a day | C |
| And draw his plump retaining fee which means his double pay | C |
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| Now ever after dinnger when the coffee cups are brought | C |
| Ahasuerus waileth o'er the grand pianoforte | C |
| And thanks to fair Cornelia his fame hath waxen great | C |
| And Ahasuerus Jenkins is a Power in the State | C |
Rudyard Kipling
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