The Puzzler Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FGHH GIJJ KKLL| The Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo | A |
| His mental processes are plain one knows what he will do | A |
| And can logically predicate his finish by his start | B |
| But the English ah the English they are quite a race apart | B |
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| Their psychology is bovine their outlook crude and raw | C |
| They abandon vital matters to be tickled with a straw | D |
| But the straw that they were tickled with the chaff that they were fed with | E |
| They convert into a weaver's beam to break their foeman's head with | E |
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| For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State | F |
| They arrive at their conclusions largely inarticulate | G |
| Being void of self expression they confide their views to none | H |
| But sometimes in a smoking room one learns why things were done | H |
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| Yes sometimes in a smoking room through clouds of quot Ers quot an quot Ums quot | G |
| Obliquely and by inference illumination comes | I |
| On some step that they have taken or some action they approve | J |
| Embellished with the argot of the Upper Fourth Remove | J |
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| In telegraphic sentences half nodded to their friends | K |
| They hint a matter's inwardness and there the matter ends | K |
| And while the Celt is talking from Valencia to Kirkwall | L |
| The English ah the English don't say anything at all | L |
Rudyard Kipling
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