I Smoke My Pipe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJEKE LMNMOEPE QRSRTEUE VWXWYEZE| I can't extend to every friend | A |
| In need a helping hand | B |
| No matter though I wish it so | C |
| 'Tis not as Fortune planned | B |
| But haply may I fancy they | D |
| Are men of different stripe | E |
| Than others think who hint and wink | F |
| And so I smoke my pipe | E |
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| A golden coal to crown the bowl | G |
| My pipe and I alone | H |
| I sit and muse with idler views | I |
| Perchance than I should own | H |
| It might be worse to own the purse | J |
| Whose glutted bowels gripe | E |
| In little qualms of stinted alms | K |
| And so I smoke my pipe | E |
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| And if inclined to moor my mind | L |
| And cast the anchor Hope | M |
| A puff of breath will put to death | N |
| The morbid misanthrope | M |
| That lurks inside as errors hide | O |
| In standing forms of type | E |
| To mar at birth some line of worth | P |
| And so I smoke my pipe | E |
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| The subtle stings misfortune flings | Q |
| Can give me little pain | R |
| When my narcotic spell has wrought | S |
| This quiet in my brain | R |
| When I can waste the past in taste | T |
| So luscious and so ripe | E |
| That like an elf I hug myself | U |
| And so I smoke my pipe | E |
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| And wrapped in shrouds of drifting clouds | V |
| I watch the phantom's flight | W |
| Till alien eyes from Paradise | X |
| Smile on me as I write | W |
| And I forgive the wrongs that live | Y |
| As lightly as I wipe | E |
| Away the tear that rises here | Z |
| And so I smoke my pipe | E |
James Whitcomb Riley
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