London Types: Drum-major Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGG| Who says Drum Major says a man of mould | A |
| Shaking the meek earth with tremendous tread | B |
| And pacing still a triumph to behold | A |
| Of his own spine at least two yards ahead | B |
| Attorney grocer surgeon broker duke | C |
| His calling may be anything who comes | D |
| Into a room his presence a rebuke | C |
| To the dejected as the pipes and drums | D |
| Inspired his port who mounts his office stairs | E |
| As though he led great armies to the fight | F |
| His bulk itself's pure genius and he wears | E |
| His avoirdupois with so much fire and spright | F |
| That though the creature stands but five feet five | G |
| You take him for the tallest He alive | G |
William Ernest Henley
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