Escape Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAAAB DEDEFFFE ABABGGGB| Sing me to sleep when I go West | A |
| But sing you soft and low | B |
| No song from the olden masters' | C |
| Or I shall not want to go | B |
| Not Schubert wondrous harmonist | A |
| Not great Beethoven Grieg nor Liszt | A |
| Nor any rare old melodist | A |
| For I'd hate the passing so | B |
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| I'll hate to part with the good green trees | D |
| And the birds and the soft kind sky | E |
| For I've abiding love for these | D |
| And I shall not want to die | E |
| But most of all shall I doubly grieve | F |
| For the joys of earth when I have to leave | F |
| Those melodies to which I cleave | F |
| When the lust for life runs high | E |
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| Sing me to sleep when I go west | A |
| The latest thing you know | B |
| In jazz and sing with brutal zest | A |
| While the saxophones moan low | B |
| And the squawkers squawk and the banjoes strum | G |
| To the bang and the boom of the big bass drum | G |
| Then I'll come out for Kingdom Come | G |
| And gladly shall I go | B |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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