To The King's Bulldog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEF GHIDCJDAKLMMNOMPQRSM MTUCCNGVWDXAYYYZA2CY NLAGYB2CJC2D2E2AYF2A YAMG2G2H2NNI2J2NK2L2 M2YAYN2| Dear Brindle | A |
| Possibly your name is not Brindle | A |
| But that is of no consequence | B |
| The great point my dear Brindle being | C |
| That when his Majesty Edward VII | D |
| Landed at Flushing the other day | E |
| He was accompanied | F |
| By | - |
| You | G |
| At least so I gather from the halfpenny papers | H |
| And I am free to admit | I |
| That when I read the paragraph | D |
| Descriptive of your landing at Flushing | C |
| My bosom swelled with honest pride | J |
| I am not a doggy man myself | D |
| Dear Brindle | A |
| And no judge of points | K |
| Also | L |
| When I see a dog coming towards me | M |
| I invariably | M |
| Whisper | N |
| Bite | O |
| And consequently | M |
| My hair | P |
| Is apt to stand on end | Q |
| Like quills upon the fretful porcupine | R |
| At pretty well every canine approach | S |
| Bulldogs especially | M |
| Affright me | M |
| So that I can well understand | T |
| How the little foreign boy | U |
| Assembled at Flushing | C |
| To scoff in his sleeve at the English King | C |
| Remained to flee as it were | N |
| At the sight of you | G |
| That in a nutshell | V |
| Is why my bosom swelled | W |
| When I read the paragraph | D |
| To which previous reference has been made | X |
| It was a picturesque circumstance my dear Brindle | A |
| And may be taken | Y |
| As one more illustration | Y |
| Of his Majesty's determination | Y |
| Pray excuse the rhyme | Z |
| To do things as a king of England should | A2 |
| To have alighted at Flushing | C |
| Accompanied by a Lion | Y |
| Would have been a little outr | N |
| And Unicorns we know | L |
| Are not obtainable | A |
| What does his Majesty do | G |
| Why he takes as he always has taken | Y |
| The middle and dignified course | B2 |
| He disjects himself on Flushing | C |
| With You by his side | J |
| Next to the Lion and the Unicorn | C2 |
| The Bulldog may be reckoned | D2 |
| The truest | E2 |
| Exemplar and symbol | A |
| Of our great nation | Y |
| It is like this | F2 |
| The Bulldog is not too beautiful | A |
| Neither is our great nation | Y |
| But he frightens people | A |
| So do we | M |
| He is tenacious | G2 |
| And magnanimous | G2 |
| Which is just our game | H2 |
| He fears no foe in shining armour | N |
| Or any other sort of armour | N |
| That is precisely our case | I2 |
| And he is kept by Lord Charles Beresford | J2 |
| The Duke of Manchester | N |
| And Mr G R Sims | K2 |
| Three eminently typical Britons | L2 |
| In short | M2 |
| The genius of the British nation | Y |
| My dear Brindle | A |
| Is not a policeman | Y |
| But a Bulldog | N2 |
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
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