Verses On Games Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABB CDEDF GHIH CJKJK CHLML CNNOOAAPQ CEEHH RHKHKSTET EUUVV CWJWJ CGKGK XXYSY COHOHHFHF CHZHZHA2HA2 KRKKRR| Here is a horse to tame | A |
| Here is a gun to handle | B |
| God knows you can enter the game | A |
| If you'll only pay for the same | A |
| And the price of the game is a candle | B |
| A single flickering candle | B |
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| JANUARY Hunting | C |
| Certes it is a noble sport | D |
| And men have quitted selle and swum for't | E |
| But I am of the meeker sort | D |
| And I prefer Surtees in comfort | F |
| - | |
| Reach me my Handley Cross again | G |
| My run where never danger lurks is | H |
| With Jorrocks and his deathless train | I |
| Pigg Binjimin and Artexerxes | H |
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| FEBRUARY Coursing | C |
| Most men harry the world for fun | J |
| Each man seeks it a different way | K |
| But of all daft devils under the sun | J |
| A greyhound's the daftest says Jorrocks J | K |
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| MARCH Racing | C |
| The horse is ridden the jockey rides | H |
| The backers back the owners own | L |
| But there are lots of things beside | M |
| And I should let this game alone | L |
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| APRIL Rowing | C |
| The Pope of Rome he could not win | N |
| From pleasant meats and pleasant sin | N |
| These who replying not submit | O |
| Unto the curses of the pit | O |
| Which that stern coach oh greater shame | A |
| Flings forth by number not by name | A |
| Can Triple Crown or Jesuit's oath | P |
| Do what one wrathful trainer doth | Q |
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| MAY Fishing | C |
| Behold a parable A fished for B | E |
| C took her bait her heart being set on D | E |
| Thank heaven who cooled your blood and cramped your wishes | H |
| Men and not Gods torment you little fishes | H |
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| JUNE Cricket | R |
| Thank God who made the British Isles | H |
| And taught me how to play | K |
| I do not worship crocodiles | H |
| Or bow the knee to clay | K |
| Give me a willow wand and I | S |
| With hide and cork and twine | T |
| From century to century | E |
| Will gambol round my shrine | T |
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| JULY Archery | E |
| The child of the Nineties considers with laughter | U |
| The maid whom his sire in the Sixties ran after | U |
| While careering himself in pursuit of a girl whom | V |
| The Twenties will dub a last century heirloom | V |
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| AUGUST Coaching | C |
| The Pious Horse to church may trot | W |
| A maid may work a man's salvation | J |
| Four horses and a girl are not | W |
| However roads to reformation | J |
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| SEPTEMBER Shooting | C |
| Peace upon Earth Goodwill to men | G |
| So greet we Christmas Day | K |
| Oh Christian load your gun and then | G |
| Oh Christian out and slay | K |
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| OCTOBER Golf | X |
| Why Golf is art and art is Golf | X |
| We have not far to seek | Y |
| So much depends upon the lie | S |
| So much upon the cleek | Y |
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| NOVEMBER Boxing | C |
| Read here the moral roundly writ | O |
| For him who into battle goes | H |
| Each soul that hitting hard or hit | O |
| Endureth gross or ghostly foes | H |
| Prince blown by many overthrows | H |
| Half blind with shame half choked with dirt | F |
| Man cannot tell but Allah knows | H |
| How much the other side was hurt | F |
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| DECEMBER Skating | C |
| Over the ice she flies | H |
| Perfect and poised and fair | Z |
| Stars in my true love's eyes | H |
| Teach me to do and dare | Z |
| Now will I fly as she flies | H |
| Woe for the stars that misled | A2 |
| Stars I beheld in her eyes | H |
| Now do I see in my head | A2 |
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| Now we must come away | K |
| That are you out of pocket | R |
| 'Sorry to spoil your play | K |
| But somebody says we must pay | K |
| And the candle's down to the socket | R |
| Its horrible tallowy socket | R |
Rudyard Kipling
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