To The Man With A Gun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKJLMNOPAQR SATTUVWXNYZAA2A2B2TA 2C2AA2D2AGA2AEVTA2E2 F2G2A2H2I2VH2F2A2J2A 2G2K2L2AAADNM2A2EN2A 2NAEO2AA2A2| My dear Sir | A |
| I suppose you are having an excellent time just now | B |
| There are a large number of counties | C |
| In England and Scotland | D |
| And I am not acquainted with one of them | E |
| Wherein your bang bang | F |
| And puffs of smoke | G |
| And red faced men with dogs | H |
| Are not to be encountered | I |
| You like it | J |
| It is very nice | K |
| And really when you come to think of it | J |
| It is what the counties were made for | L |
| In the history books | M |
| They were wont to say | N |
| Of a certain Norman monarch | O |
| That he loved the red deer | P |
| As if he were their brother | A |
| Of you it may safely be said | Q |
| That you love the red grouse | R |
| And the brown partridge | S |
| As if you were a poulterer | A |
| You are a sportsman | T |
| The man who first went out with a gun | T |
| To shoot game | U |
| Probably did it on the sly | V |
| Had he been caught | W |
| He would no doubt have been regarded | X |
| By the sportsmen of his day | N |
| With the same contempt | Y |
| That you yourself indulge | Z |
| For the unprincipled blackguard Sir | A |
| Who shoots foxes | A2 |
| But time and the gunsmiths | A2 |
| Have changed all that | B2 |
| And now you are a sportsman | T |
| A shooter of birds | A2 |
| For the London market | C2 |
| You are also a gunner | A |
| And you kill things | A2 |
| Oh why do you not go | D2 |
| And live at Gunners bury | A |
| Bad joke | G |
| Well I know it is | A2 |
| But I assure you my dear Sir | A |
| That it is not half so bad as I can make them | E |
| When I try | V |
| To come now to the region | T |
| Of practical politics | A2 |
| Let me explain to you right off | E2 |
| That despite all that has been said against you | F2 |
| By people who are mad about the Land | G2 |
| And the Game laws | A2 |
| And the feathered kingdom | H2 |
| And so forth | I2 |
| I | V |
| Who am always on the side of wisdom | H2 |
| Have discovered a justification for you | F2 |
| It is this | A2 |
| There has been a great demand of late | J2 |
| For really competent shots | A2 |
| In response to that demand | G2 |
| Mr Kipling has started a village rifle club | K2 |
| I understand that the members thereof | L2 |
| Are let us say five hundred in number | A |
| Now I put it to you Sir | A |
| How many sportsmen are there | A |
| Shooting in this beautiful country and Scotland | D |
| To day | N |
| Well we will not compute | M2 |
| It is dangerous | A2 |
| But you could make a fairly big rifle club out of them | E |
| They are all good men | N2 |
| And of course all beautiful shots | A2 |
| Some day | N |
| When the war is over | A |
| England may want them | E |
| Will they answer to the call | O2 |
| My dear Sir | A |
| You have your uses | A2 |
| Go in peace | A2 |
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
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