The Golf Walk

Ellis Parker Butler 1869 (Muscatine) – 1937 (Williamsville)



Behold, my child, this touching scene,
The golfer on the golfing-green;
Pray mark his legs’ uncanny swing,
The golf-walk is a gruesome thing!

See how his arms and shoulders ride
Above his legs in haughty pride,
While over bunker, hill and lawn
His feet, relentless, drag him on.

And does the man walk always so?
Nay! nay I my child, and eke, oh! no!
It is a gait he only knows
When he has on his golfing clothes.

Blame not the man for that strange stride
He could not help it if he tried;
It is his timid feet that try
From his obstreperous clothes to fly.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 25, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABB CCXX DDXX CCEE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 551
Words 109
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

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