To The American Invader Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHFFFFFFFIABCJ FKGFKLIIIFFEMNMOPQFI IIREGIFSFFOSTIIUFIAF FVFGIIWXXYIZXGZYIFIFDear Sir or Madam | A |
As the case may be | B |
Peace hath her victories as well as war | C |
And sometimes | D |
When I have occasion to travel | E |
In this muggy metropolis of ours | F |
I begin to wonder whether I really am in London | G |
Or in New York | H |
On the tops of Atlas 'buses and all other 'buses | F |
At the dining tables of hotels at all prices | F |
At all theatres | F |
At all music halls | F |
At all art galleries | F |
At all evenings | F |
At all social functions | F |
Metropolitan in their nature | I |
You my dear Sir or Madam | A |
As the case may be | B |
Flourish and are to the fore | C |
There are people in the world | J |
Who can pick you out at a glance | F |
The American woman I am told | K |
Wears a certain kind of complexion | G |
And a certain kind of blouse | F |
The American man I am told | K |
Is weedy and an mic | L |
A cigarette smoker | I |
A confirmed spitter | I |
And a moderate drinker | I |
He has a soft hat and unlimited dollars | F |
It is his dollars of course | F |
Which are creating all the trouble | E |
They are beginning to circulate | M |
And geta holt | N |
Wherever honest Britons most do congregate | M |
My tobacco merchant | O |
Who sells me two ounces of the real thing every week | P |
Has just been bought up by an American syndicate | Q |
My barber is in the same case | F |
And I feel sure | I |
That the woman who brings home the laundry | I |
Is seriously considering proposals which have been made to her | I |
By a syndicate of wealthy American gentlemen | R |
The electric lighting plant in St Paul's Cathedral | E |
Was it seems paid for by an American | G |
Another American is doing something or other | I |
With the underground railways | F |
And a third proposes to erect a building | S |
Which will contain rooms | F |
On one of the best sites | F |
On the new Holborn Strand improvement | O |
Also I am using | S |
An American roll top desk | T |
An American typewriter | I |
An American chair | I |
American ink | U |
American pens | F |
American blotting paper | I |
American gum | A |
American paper fasteners | F |
American notions | F |
An American pattern of Ode | V |
And Heaven knows what besides | F |
I am all American | G |
I can whistle the Star Spangled Banner | I |
I can really | I |
Shake | W |
I like you | X |
There are no flies on you | X |
How are Mr Roosevelt and all at home | Y |
Is Pierpont keeping hearty | I |
Do you miss Carnegie much | Z |
Have you seen the Amur'can eagle at the Zoo | X |
Is Monroe's docterin' | G |
Good for dyspepsia | Z |
And it's O to be at home | Y |
On the rolling perarie | I |
With one's money well invested in English concerns | F |
Run by British labour | I |
And paying good old fruity nourishing British dividends | F |
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
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