To Everybody Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACADEAFAGHDIGJAKLK MNOPNAOAAQRSTUVWHVXY ZHVA2B2YC2D2AE2SE2SF 2SVOG2H2ANNH2I2J2NK2 SSSL2M2M2M2N2M2M2N2O 2P2C2Q2R2GNS2T2U2T2R V2A W2W2My dear Everybody | A |
The other day I lunched at a place | B |
Where there was a pretty lady | A |
During the course of the talk | C |
The pretty lady said to me | A |
You see Everybody is out of town | D |
At present | E |
I said Who is Everybody | A |
Whereupon the pretty lady replied | F |
Well er Everybody | A |
I said Quite so | G |
But don't you think it is rather | H |
Fortunate that Everybody is out of town | D |
And the pretty lady answered and said | I |
No | G |
I conclude therefore | J |
That you Everybody | A |
Must on the whole be rather nice | K |
I hope you are | L |
For Everybody should be rather nice | K |
Should they not | M |
And when I come to think of it | N |
The circumstance that I heard of you | O |
The other day | P |
Has nothing prodigiously unusual about it | N |
Really and truly | A |
One is always hearing about you | O |
One is believe me | A |
For example the paragraph writers assure me | A |
That Everybody is reading | Q |
Miss So and So's great novel | R |
Also that Everybody will join with them | S |
In congratulating Miss So and So on her approaching marriage | T |
Also that Everybody is in the Highlands | U |
That Everybody anticipates a good season | V |
That Everybody keeps a houseboat | W |
That Everybody sups at the Carlton after the theatre | H |
That Everybody recognises in Lord Salisbury a great statesman | V |
That Everybody plays golf | X |
That Everybody who can afford it dresses well | Y |
That Everybody knows the King has tact | Z |
That Everybody thinks the Queen grows younger as she grows older | H |
That Everybody hopes Sir Thomas Lipton | V |
Will win the America Cup | A2 |
And so on | B2 |
Which is well | Y |
I don't mind in the least | C2 |
Why should I | D2 |
Yet if I were Everybody | A |
I imagine that I should not do things | E2 |
Quite in the same way that you do them | S |
To my mind your great defect is that you do things | E2 |
Not because you like to do them | S |
But simply because | F2 |
Everybody does them | S |
This is an excellent reason | V |
From your point of view | O |
But to me it seems a trifle stupid | G2 |
Who is reading Miss So and So's book | H2 |
Everybody | A |
Why are they reading it | N |
Because Everybody is reading it | N |
Do they like Miss So and So's book | H2 |
They are not quite sure | I2 |
But Everybody says it is good | J2 |
And therefore Everybody must read it | N |
Why are frock coats worn | K2 |
Because Everybody wears them | S |
Why does Everybody wear them | S |
Because Everybody wears them | S |
Why does Everybody dine at a certain restaurant | L2 |
Because Everybody dines there | M2 |
Why does Everybody dine there | M2 |
Because Everybody dines there | M2 |
Why does | N2 |
But there | M2 |
I forbear | M2 |
Did time allow I might multiply instances | N2 |
Till Everybody felt bored | O2 |
But I stay min' hand | P2 |
Enough you know is as good as a feast | C2 |
Likewise better a stalled ox | Q2 |
Than a dinner of herbs | R2 |
Everybody says so | G |
Wherefore I am constrained to believe it | N |
By way of conclusion let us ask ourselves | S2 |
What is happening just now | T2 |
Everybody says | U2 |
That nothing is happening just now | T2 |
And that everything is frightfully dull | R |
And | V2 |
Everybody | A |
Is | - |
Quite | W2 |
Right | W2 |
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
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