Obadiah Bell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFEFFF EGEEGHHIJKIK ACHHCLLGMGGG| I am fit and I am well so said Obadiah Bell | A |
| I take life as it come from day to day | B |
| I have never been a scorner | C |
| Of the 'trouble round the corner ' | D |
| For it may be lurking half a life away | B |
| No false vision ere bewitches | E |
| Me with dreams of fame or riches So I'm fairly well content and free of strife | F |
| With my job and friends and my garden and my fowls and my club and my bowls | E |
| and my pipe and my books and my dog and my family and my wife | F |
| And since I seek the safer things in life | F |
| Most especially my family and wife | F |
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| On occasion vagrant fears stir me with the passing years | E |
| A sudden qualm a flash of half felt fright | G |
| But I know my limitations | E |
| As a savior of nations | E |
| And who am I to put the world aright | G |
| So when qualms like these assail me | H |
| What I find may never fail me | H |
| As contented as I may tho' life I jog | I |
| Are my job and friends and my fowls and my club and my bowls and my pipe | J |
| and my family and my wife and my books and my garden and my dog | K |
| And when I'd dissipate some mental fog | I |
| Most especially my garden and my dog | K |
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| For a man can tell tell so said Obadiah Bell | A |
| When what he has may one day disappear | C |
| So I thank what gods there be | H |
| That all they gave to me | H |
| Has stayed with me for yet another year | C |
| And I do such as I can | L |
| To assist my fellow man | L |
| And wish him blessed as I am with my lot | G |
| With my family and my wife and my job and my bowls and my pipe and my | M |
| dog and my club and my friends and my little garden plot | G |
| And when I think of all the joy I've got | G |
| Most especially my friends and which is not | G |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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