The Alternative - 1908 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHIJ BIB KK III II| If some day you should find me cold and stark | A |
| If you should stumble o'er my lifeless clay | B |
| In some still thoroughfare or public park | A |
| And sadly say | B |
| 'Alack and had he lived as like as not | C |
| He'd reigned with Bent ' I should not care a jot | C |
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| If I should die in some by way obscure | D |
| And you should come across my silent corse | E |
| In its last sleep my spirit would be sure | D |
| Know no remorse | E |
| 'Twere better that I thus had ceased to live | F |
| If life with Bent were the alternative | G |
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| I say if I should die and all alone | H |
| And dying thus escape the wiles of Bent | I |
| O'er my remains I'd have you make no moan | H |
| Nor yet lament | I |
| But let relief be mingled with your woe | J |
| And murmur o'er my clay ''Twere better so ' | - |
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| Nay if you came as in my bier I lay | B |
| And sald 'Who knows If this had not occurred' | I |
| I should arise in my grave clothes and say | B |
| 'Don't be absurd ' | - |
| And being safely out of Tommy's reach | K |
| I'd probably get out and make a speech | K |
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| I'd tell you 'Better have a monument | I |
| Above my head and coffined lie at rest | I |
| Than live in some Cabinet with Bent | I |
| Upon my chest ' | - |
| And having said all that was to he said | I |
| I should continue being very dead | I |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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