A Manager's Perplexities Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCCBDEDEFFGG HHIJJJIKLKLLMMNN| Were I a king in very truth | A |
| And had a son a guileless youth | A |
| In probable succession | B |
| To teach him patience teach him tact | C |
| How promptly in a fix to act | C |
| He should adopt in point of fact | C |
| A manager's profession | B |
| To that condition he should stoop | D |
| Despite a too fond mother | E |
| With eight or ten stars in his troupe | D |
| All jealous of each other | E |
| Oh the man who can rule a theatrical crew | F |
| Each member a genius and some of them two | F |
| And manage to humour them little and great | G |
| Can govern a tuppenny ha'penny State | G |
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| Both A and B rehearsal slight | H |
| They say they'll be all right at night | H |
| They've both to go to school yet | I |
| C in each act MUST change her dress | J |
| D WILL attempt to square the press | J |
| E won't play Romeo unless | J |
| His grandmother plays Juliet | I |
| F claims all hoydens as her rights | K |
| She's played them thirty seasons | L |
| And G must show herself in tights | K |
| For two convincing reasons | L |
| Two very well shaped reasons | L |
| Oh the man who can drive a theatrical team | M |
| With wheelers and leaders in order supreme | M |
| Can govern and rule with a wave of his fin | N |
| All Europe and Asia with Ireland thrown in | N |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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