A Song Of Suicide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE FFGGHHII JJKLAAMM NNBBOOPP| Deeming that I were better dead | A |
| How shall I kill myself I said | A |
| Thus mooning by the river Seine | B |
| I sought extinction without pain | C |
| When on a bridge I saw a flash | D |
| Of lingerie and heard a splash | D |
| So as I am a swimmer stout | E |
| I plunged and pulled the poor wretch out | E |
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| The female that I saved Ah yes | F |
| To yield the Morgue of one corpse the less | F |
| Apart from all heroic action | G |
| Gave me a moral satisfaction | G |
| was she an old and withered hag | H |
| Too tired of life to long to lag | H |
| Ah no she was so young and fair | I |
| I fell in love with her right there | I |
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| And when she took me to her attic | J |
| Her gratitude was most emphatic | J |
| A sweet and simple girl she proved | K |
| Distraught because the man she loved | L |
| In battle his life blood had shed | A |
| So I too told her of my dead | A |
| The girl who in a garret grey | M |
| Had coughed and coughed her life away | M |
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| Thus as we sought our griefs to smother | N |
| With kisses we consoled each other | N |
| And there's the ending of my story | B |
| It wasn't grim it wasn't gory | B |
| For comforted were hearts forlorn | O |
| And from black sorrow joy was born | O |
| So may our dead dears be forgiving | P |
| And bless the rapture of the living | P |
Robert Service
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piykach oo: i was searching for animal extinction not human extinction....
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