A Mediocre Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB BBBBDEDE FGFHIAIA| I'm just a mediocre man | A |
| Of no high brow pretence | B |
| A comfortable life I plan | A |
| With care and commonsense | B |
| I do the things most people do | C |
| I echo what they say | B |
| And through my morning paper view | C |
| The problems of the day | B |
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| No doubt you think I'm colourless | B |
| Profoundly commonplace | B |
| And yet I fancy more or less | B |
| I represent the race | B |
| My name may stand for everyone | D |
| At least for nine in ten | E |
| For all in all the world is run | D |
| By mediocre men | E |
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| Of course you'll maybe not agree | F |
| That you are average | G |
| And unlike ordinary me | F |
| You strut your little stage | H |
| Well you may even own a Bank | I |
| And mighty mergers plan | A |
| But Brother doff your tile and thank | I |
| The Mediocre Man | A |
Robert Service
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