Public Waste Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAA DADA AEAE FGFA HIHA AJAJ KAKA LMLM| Walpole talks of quot a man and his price quot | A |
| List to a ditty queer | B |
| The sale of a Deputy Acting Vice | C |
| Resident Engineer | B |
| Boug ht like a bullock hoof and hide | A |
| By the Little Tin Gods on the Mountain Side | A |
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| By the Laws of the Family Circle 'tis written in letters of brass | D |
| That only a Colonel from Chatham can manage the Railways of State | A |
| Because of the gold on his breeks and the subjects wherein he must pass | D |
| Because in all matters that deal not with Railways his knowledge is great | A |
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| Now Exeter Battleby Tring had laboured from boyhood to eld | A |
| On the Lines of the East and the West and eke of the North and South | E |
| Many Lines had he built and surveyed important the posts which he held | A |
| And the Lords of the Iron Horse were dumb when he opened his mouth | E |
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| Black as the raven his garb and his heresies jettier still | F |
| Hinting that Railways required lifetimes of study and knowledge | G |
| Never clanked sword by his side Vauban he knew not nor drill | F |
| Nor was his name on the list of the men who had passed through the quot College quot | A |
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| Wherefore the Little Tin Gods harried their little tin souls | H |
| Seeing he came not from Chatham jingled no spurs at his heels | I |
| Knowing that nevertheless was he first on the Government rolls | H |
| For the billet of quot Railway Instructor to Little Tin Gods on Wheels quot | A |
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| Letters not seldom they wrote him quot having the honour to state quot | A |
| It would be better for all men if he were laid on the shelf | J |
| Much would accrue to his bank book an he consented to wait | A |
| Until the Little Tin Gods built him a berth for himself | J |
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| quot Special well paid and exempt from the Law of the Fifty and Five | K |
| Even to Ninety and Nine quot these were the terms of the pact | A |
| Thus did the Little Tin Gods lon may Their Highnesses thrive | K |
| Silence his mouth with rupees keeping their Circle intact | A |
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| Appointing a Colonel from Chatham who managed the Bhamo State Line | L |
| The wich was on mile and one furlong a guaranteed twenty inch gauge | M |
| So Exeter Battleby Tring consented his claims to resign | L |
| And died on four thousand a month in the ninetieth year of his age | M |
Rudyard Kipling
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