Sporting Acquaintances Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGG| I watched old squatting Chimpanzee he traced | A |
| His painful patterns in the dirt I saw | B |
| Red haired Ourang utang whimsical faced | A |
| Chewing a sportsman's meditative straw | B |
| I'd met them years ago and half forgotten | C |
| They'd come to grief but how I'd never heard | D |
| Poor beggars still it seemed so rude and rotten | C |
| To stand and gape at them with never a word | D |
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| I ventured 'Ages since we met ' and tried | E |
| My candid smile of friendship no success | F |
| One scratched his hairy thigh while t'other sighed | E |
| And glanced away I saw they liked me less | F |
| Than when on Epsom Downs in cloudless weather | G |
| We backed The Tetrarch and got drunk together | G |
Siegfried Sassoon
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