The Bother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEFBGHIJKLI GMJIBBN| Clough | A |
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| Hastily Adam our driver swallowed a curse in the darkness | B |
| Petrol nigh at end and something wrong with a sprocket | C |
| Made him speer for the nearest town when lo at the crossways | B |
| Four blank letterless arms the virginal signpost extended | D |
| quot Look quot thundered Hugh the Radical quot This is the England we | E |
| boast of | F |
| Bland white bellied obese but utterly useless for business | B |
| They are repainting the signs and have left the job in the middle | G |
| They are repainting the signs and traffic may stop till they've | H |
| done it | I |
| Which is to say till the son of a gun of a local contractor | J |
| Having laboriously wiped out every name for | K |
| Probably thirty miles round be minded to finish his labour | L |
| Had not the fool the sense to paint out and paint in together quot | I |
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| Thus not seeing his speech belied his Radical Gospel | G |
| Which is to paint out the earth and then write quot Damn quot on the | M |
| shutter | J |
| Hugh embroidered the theme imperially and stretched it | I |
| From some borough in Wales through our Australian possessions | B |
| Making himself reformer wise a bit of a nuisance | B |
| Till with the help of Adam we cast him out on the landscape | N |
Rudyard Kipling
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