The Contemplative Sentry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGFEHI JDJDKBLBGFGFEHI| When all night long a chap remains | A |
| On sentry go to chase monotony | B |
| He exercises of his brains | A |
| That is assuming that he's got any | B |
| Though never nurtured in the lap | C |
| Of luxury yet I admonish you | D |
| I am an intellectual chap | C |
| And think of things that would astonish you | D |
| I often think it's comical | E |
| How Nature always does contrive | F |
| That every boy and every gal | G |
| That's born into the world alive | F |
| Is either a little Liberal | E |
| Or else a little Conservative | H |
| Fal lal la | I |
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| When in that house M P 's divide | J |
| If they've a brain and cerebellum too | D |
| They're got to leave that brain outside | J |
| And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to | D |
| But then the prospect of a lot | K |
| Of statesmen all in close proximity | B |
| A thinking for themselves is what | L |
| No man can face with equanimity | B |
| Then let's rejoice with loud Fal lal | G |
| That Nature wisely does contrive | F |
| That every boy and every gal | G |
| That's born into the world alive | F |
| Is either a little Liberal | E |
| Or else a little Conservative | H |
| Fal lal la | I |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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