I am a modern metricist I like to keep the score
and often use a metronome which pleases me still more.
It was the stuff of Gilbert in the operas at Savoy,
the Modern Major General depended on that ploy.
The Empire built its influence on Fourteeners to beat
the lesser breeds in thought and deed to metrical defeat.
So sing of spring and rum tee tum and honey still for tea,
don't let my people go, oh no, I'll never set them free.
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