To The Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHICBJKLMNOPQRS TUVBAWAXXYPZYA2XB2YA A2FRBC2D2E2F2BA2YG2Y H2E2I2BYYJ2YK2YPZYL2 M2B2AN2E2O2P2| Touching his Audience of the King | A |
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| My dear Mr Chamberlain | B |
| Since you last heard from me | C |
| Many curious things have happened | D |
| Both in Birmingham and abroad | E |
| As to the happenings in Birmingham | F |
| Nobody cares tuppence for them | G |
| The happenings abroad however are a different matter | H |
| Inasmuch as they have brought you great fame | I |
| And cost us a lot of money | C |
| Your influence in the governance of this great country my dear Mr Chamberlain | B |
| Is undoubted | J |
| When you say things | K |
| It is understood that all your fellow ministers | L |
| Sit up and look good | M |
| We don't like it they say in their decent hearts | N |
| But Joseph says it must be so and be so it must | O |
| To the delicate souls of Arthur James | P |
| And George and Broddy and the rest of 'em | Q |
| You must my dear Mr Chamberlain be a good deal of a trial | R |
| But somehow they have to put up with you | S |
| Even as the honest martyr has to put up with his shirt | T |
| And for my own part I rather like to see it | U |
| At any rate in a sort of way don't you know | V |
| But my dear Mr Chamberlain | B |
| In the daily papers of Monday morning | A |
| What did I read Why I read | W |
| Mr Chamberlain had an audience of the King | A |
| Yesterday afternoon | X |
| And yesterday afternoon was Sunday afternoon | X |
| Now my dear Joseph I do not mind in the least | Y |
| What you do to Arthur James | P |
| Or what you do to George | Z |
| Or what you do to Broddy | Y |
| Or whether you do it on Sunday afternoons | A2 |
| Or on any other afternoon | X |
| But I really must draw the line somewhere | B2 |
| And I wish you to understand | Y |
| That if you go to see His Majesty the King | A |
| On Sunday afternoons | A2 |
| On the afternoon of the Sabbath as they would say in Birmingham | F |
| You do so entirely without my approval | R |
| I think it is scandalous and not being a politician | B |
| I have no hesitation in saying what I think | C2 |
| Somehow while I know you to be a competent man of business | D2 |
| You never figure in my mind's eye Joseph | E2 |
| As the sort of man who ought to have | F2 |
| Personal communication with his Sovereign | B |
| Particularly on Sunday afternoons | A2 |
| Birmingham men were not born to grace the Court | Y |
| And when it comes to the furnishing of Pleasant Sunday Afternoons for Monarchs | G2 |
| In my opinion they are quite out of it | Y |
| When business presses | H2 |
| As it no doubt did press on Sunday Joseph | E2 |
| It is your business as a Birmingham man | I2 |
| To remember your origin | B |
| And if you have anything on your mind | Y |
| Which really must be communicated | Y |
| To His Gracious Majesty King Edward the Seventh | J2 |
| To look up the peerage and send round somebody | Y |
| Who is as one might say fit for the job | K2 |
| There is always Salisbury | Y |
| There is always Arthur James | P |
| There is always George | Z |
| And there is always Broddy | Y |
| These men my dear Joseph are gentlemen | L2 |
| And have known the Court all their lives | M2 |
| What they do on Sundays I neither know nor care | B2 |
| But I have no doubt that if you told them to go round and see the King | A |
| They would go hotfoot and see him | N2 |
| So that you have no excuse Joseph | E2 |
| Birmingham will no doubt forgive you this once | O2 |
| As for me I solemnly swear that I never will | P2 |
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
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