The Man Who Could Write Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFF GBHI JJ BBKK LLMM NNOO PPBB EEBB GGQ Q| Shun shun the Bowl That fatal facile drink | A |
| Has ruined many geese who dipped their quills in 't | B |
| Bribe murder marry but steer clear of Ink | A |
| Save when you write receipts for paid up bills in 't | B |
| There may be silver in the quot blue black quot all | C |
| I know of is the iron and the gall | C |
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| Boanerges Blitzen servant of the Queen | D |
| Is a dismal failure is a Might have been | E |
| In a luckless moment he discovered men | F |
| Rise to high position through a ready pen | F |
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| Boanerges Blitzen argued therefore quot I | G |
| With the selfsame weapon can attain as high quot | B |
| Only he did not possess when he made the trial | H |
| Wicked wit of C lv n irony of L l | I |
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| Men who spar with Government need to back their blows | J |
| Something more than ordinary journalistic prose | J |
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| Never young Civilian's prospects were so bright | B |
| Till an Indian paper found that he could write | B |
| Never young Civilian's prospects were so dark | K |
| When the wretched Blitzen wrote to make his mark | K |
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| Certainly he scored it bold and black and firm | L |
| In that Indian paper made his seniors squirm | L |
| Quated office scandals wrote the tactless truth | M |
| Was there ever known a more misguided youth | M |
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| When the Rag he wrote for praised his plucky game | N |
| Boanerges Blitzen felt that this was Fame | N |
| When the men he wrote of shook their heads and swore | O |
| Boanerges Blitzen only wrote the more | O |
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| Posed as Young Ithuriel resolute and grim | P |
| Till he found promotion didn't come to him | P |
| Till he found that reprimands weekly were his lot | B |
| And his many Districts curiously hot | B |
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| Till he found his furlough strangely hard to win | E |
| Boanerges Blitzen didn't care to pin | E |
| Then it seemed to dawn on him something wasn't right | B |
| Boanerges Blitzen put it down to quot spite quot | B |
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| Languished in a District desolate and dry | G |
| Watched the Local Government yearly pass him by | G |
| Wondered where the hitch was called it most unfair | Q |
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| That was seven years ago and he still is there | Q |
Rudyard Kipling
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