A Telephone Message Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDECFFCCCGHC FCCCCIJCKCLCCCCCMC CKCLC NOLNLLLLPPHHLLLQQ LRSLLLLTSUU QCHHVHWHHHHHHEH

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERNA
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Hello HelloB
Are you there Are you thereC
Ah That you WellD
This is just to tell youE
That there's trouble in the airC
TroubleF
T R O U B L E TroubleF
WhereC
In the airC
Trouble in the airC
Got that RightG
Then take a word of warningH
And BewareC
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What troubleF
Every trouble everywhereC
Every wildest kind of nightmareC
That has ridden you is thereC
In the airC
And it's coming like a whirlwindI
Like a wild beast mad with hungerJ
To rend and wrench and tearC
To tear the world in pieces maybeK
Unless it gets its shareC
Can't you see the signs and portentsL
Can't you feel them in the airC
Can't you see you unbelieverC
Can't you see or don't you careC
That the Past is gone for everC
Past your uttermost endeavourC
That To day is on the scrap heapM
And the Future anywhereC
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WhereC
Ah that's beyond meK
But it lies with those who dareC
To think of big To morrowsL
And intend to have their shareC
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All the things you've held and trustedN
Are played out decayed and rustedO
Now in fiery circumstanceL
They will all be readjustedN
If you cling to those old thingsL
Hoping still to hold the stringsL
And for your ungodly gainsL
Life to bind with golden chainsL
Man you're mightily mistakenP
From such dreams you'd best awakenP
To the sense of what is comingH
When you hear the low dull boomingH
Of the far off tocsin drumsL
Such a day of vast upsettingsL
Dire outcastings and downsettingsL
You have held the reins too longQ
Have you time to heal the wrongQ
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What's wrong What's amissL
Man alive If you don't know thatR
There's nothing more to be saidS
You ask what's amiss when your destiniesL
Hang by a thread in the great abyssL
What's amiss What's amissL
Well my friend just thisL
There's a bill to pay and it's due to dayT
And before it's paid you may all be deadS
Wake up Wake up or all too lateU
You will find yourselves exterminateU
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What's wrongQ
Listen hereC
Do you catch a sound like drummingH
Far away and distant drummingH
You hear it WhatV
The wires hummingH
No my friend it is notW
It's the tune the prentice hands are thrummingH
The tune of the dire red time that's comingH
The far away pregnant ghostly boomingH
Of the great red drums' dread drummingH
For they're coming coming comingH
With their dread and doomful drummingH
Unless youE
Br r r r r r r r r r click clackH

William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)



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