A Telephone Message Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDECFFCCCGHC FCCCCIJCKCLCCCCCMC CKCLC NOLNLLLLPPHHLLLQQ LRSLLLLTSUU QCHHVHWHHHHHHEH| TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN | A |
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| Hello Hello | B |
| Are you there Are you there | C |
| Ah That you Well | D |
| This is just to tell you | E |
| That there's trouble in the air | C |
| Trouble | F |
| T R O U B L E Trouble | F |
| Where | C |
| In the air | C |
| Trouble in the air | C |
| Got that Right | G |
| Then take a word of warning | H |
| And Beware | C |
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| What trouble | F |
| Every trouble everywhere | C |
| Every wildest kind of nightmare | C |
| That has ridden you is there | C |
| In the air | C |
| And it's coming like a whirlwind | I |
| Like a wild beast mad with hunger | J |
| To rend and wrench and tear | C |
| To tear the world in pieces maybe | K |
| Unless it gets its share | C |
| Can't you see the signs and portents | L |
| Can't you feel them in the air | C |
| Can't you see you unbeliever | C |
| Can't you see or don't you care | C |
| That the Past is gone for ever | C |
| Past your uttermost endeavour | C |
| That To day is on the scrap heap | M |
| And the Future anywhere | C |
| - | |
| Where | C |
| Ah that's beyond me | K |
| But it lies with those who dare | C |
| To think of big To morrows | L |
| And intend to have their share | C |
| - | |
| All the things you've held and trusted | N |
| Are played out decayed and rusted | O |
| Now in fiery circumstance | L |
| They will all be readjusted | N |
| If you cling to those old things | L |
| Hoping still to hold the strings | L |
| And for your ungodly gains | L |
| Life to bind with golden chains | L |
| Man you're mightily mistaken | P |
| From such dreams you'd best awaken | P |
| To the sense of what is coming | H |
| When you hear the low dull booming | H |
| Of the far off tocsin drums | L |
| Such a day of vast upsettings | L |
| Dire outcastings and downsettings | L |
| You have held the reins too long | Q |
| Have you time to heal the wrong | Q |
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| What's wrong What's amiss | L |
| Man alive If you don't know that | R |
| There's nothing more to be said | S |
| You ask what's amiss when your destinies | L |
| Hang by a thread in the great abyss | L |
| What's amiss What's amiss | L |
| Well my friend just this | L |
| There's a bill to pay and it's due to day | T |
| And before it's paid you may all be dead | S |
| Wake up Wake up or all too late | U |
| You will find yourselves exterminate | U |
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| What's wrong | Q |
| Listen here | C |
| Do you catch a sound like drumming | H |
| Far away and distant drumming | H |
| You hear it What | V |
| The wires humming | H |
| No my friend it is not | W |
| It's the tune the prentice hands are thrumming | H |
| The tune of the dire red time that's coming | H |
| The far away pregnant ghostly booming | H |
| Of the great red drums' dread drumming | H |
| For they're coming coming coming | H |
| With their dread and doomful drumming | H |
| Unless you | E |
| Br r r r r r r r r r click clack | H |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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