To The Lord Mayor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDEDDDFGHDIIJIDHDK DILDDMNIOIBIDHFMDPMI QIIRSTQUBDDVFDDBIWIO WDBDXDBYZBPD| November th | A |
| - | |
| My dear Lord Mayor | B |
| In Fleet Street all is gay | C |
| From min' office window I catch glimpses | D |
| Of fluttering bunting and swinging festoons | D |
| I don't know who pays for them | E |
| The bunting and the festoons that is to say | D |
| But I am informed by the police that they | D |
| The bunting and the festoons that is to say | D |
| Have been hung up in honour of YOU | F |
| I am also given to understand that there has been a big rush | G |
| For free windows to view your procession | H |
| Which all being well the Procession that is to say | D |
| Will take place this day Saturday | I |
| For my own part I am going into the country | I |
| And I dare say that on the whole | J |
| You wish you were going with me | I |
| But ambition has its penalties | D |
| And if you will become Lord Mayor of London | H |
| A dizzy pinnacle to which none but the biggest souled of us | D |
| May aspire | K |
| I suppose you must put up with the attendant inconveniences | D |
| And publicity | I |
| So far as I have been able to judge | L |
| And I arrive at this conclusion by dint of steadfast abstinence | D |
| From witnessing Lord Mayors' Shows | D |
| A Lord Mayor's Show is a distinctly inspiriting spectacle | M |
| It may be set down | N |
| As the Londoner's one annual opportunity | I |
| Of seeing a circus for nothing | O |
| Hence no doubt its popularity | I |
| Think not however my dear Lord Mayor | B |
| That I deprecate your little pageant gratis though it be | I |
| This country as everybody knows | D |
| Has for centuries past been on the high road to ruin | H |
| And in my humble opinion its decadence has been largely due | F |
| To a deep rooted tendency on the part of the powerful | M |
| To curtail and do away with mayoral and other shows | D |
| Feasts and fairs have been kicked out of England | P |
| By the aforesaid powerful | M |
| If you would be a respectable community | I |
| You must have neither feast nor fair | Q |
| And if you would be a respectable citizen of any given city | I |
| You must not array yourself in motley | I |
| A man who walked into his bank | R |
| In yellow trousers and a blue silk hat | S |
| Would never be allowed an overdraft | T |
| Black and subdued greens and browns being the only wear | Q |
| For persons who would get on in life | U |
| All this is wrong my dear Lord Mayor | B |
| I am of opinion that millionaires | D |
| Ought to wear purple breeches | D |
| I see no reason why I myself | V |
| Should not have a morning coat of red white and blue | F |
| Or a waistcoat emblazoned with the arms | D |
| Of the Worshipful Company of Spectaclemakers | D |
| In fact my dear Lord Mayor | B |
| To perpetrate a Mrs Meynellism | I |
| The colour of life is the salt of it | W |
| Just as the Lord Mayor's Show is the salt of the Lord Mayoralty | I |
| And the one beautiful thing | O |
| About life as people expect you to live it | W |
| In the Metropolis | D |
| Come hither come hither my dear Lord Mayor | B |
| And do not tremble so | D |
| We are all glad to see you going up Fleet Street | X |
| We are all glad to see you going home the other way | D |
| And we shall be equally glad to see your successor | B |
| Getting through the same flowerful day's work | Y |
| Next year | Z |
| Goodbye my dear Lord Mayor | B |
| And | P |
| Hooray | D |
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
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