The Baffled Grumbler Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDEFFEGGHH IIJKKJLLEMMEEEHH NNJOOJMMBKKBMMHH| Whene'er I poke | A |
| Sarcastic joke | A |
| Replete with malice spiteful | B |
| The people vile | C |
| Politely smile | C |
| And vote me quite delightful | B |
| Now when a wight | D |
| Sits up all night | D |
| Ill natured jokes devising | E |
| And all his wiles | F |
| Are met with smiles | F |
| It's hard there's no disguising | E |
| Oh don't the days seem lank and long | G |
| When all goes right and nothing goes wrong | G |
| And isn't your life extremely flat | H |
| With nothing whatever to grumble at | H |
| - | |
| When German bands | I |
| From music stands | I |
| Play Wagner imperFECTly | J |
| I bid them go | K |
| They don't say no | K |
| But off they trot directly | J |
| The organ boys | L |
| They stop their noise | L |
| With readiness surprising | E |
| And grinning herds | M |
| Of hurdy gurds | M |
| Retire apologising | E |
| Oh don't the days seem lank and long | E |
| When all goes right and nothing goes wrong | E |
| And isn't your life extremely flat | H |
| With nothing whatever to grumble at | H |
| - | |
| I've offered gold | N |
| In sums untold | N |
| To all who'd contradict me | J |
| I've said I'd pay | O |
| A pound a day | O |
| To any one who kicked me | J |
| I've bribed with toys | M |
| Great vulgar boys | M |
| To utter something spiteful | B |
| But bless you no | K |
| They WILL be so | K |
| Confoundedly politeful | B |
| In short these aggravating lads | M |
| They tickle my tastes they feed my fads | M |
| They give me this and they give me that | H |
| And I've nothing whatever to grumble at | H |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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