Amateur Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHIHI JKJKLMLM NONPQCQC| You see that sheaf of slender books | A |
| Upon the topmost shelf | B |
| At which no browser ever looks | A |
| Because they're by myself | B |
| They're neatly bound in navy blue | C |
| But no one ever heeds | D |
| Their print is clear and candid too | C |
| Yet no one ever reads | D |
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| Poor wistful books How much they cost | E |
| To me in time and gold | F |
| I count them now as labour lost | G |
| For none I ever sold | F |
| No copy could I give away | H |
| For all my friends would shrink | I |
| And look at me as if to say | H |
| What waste of printer's ink | I |
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| And as I gaze at them on high | J |
| Although my eyes are sad | K |
| I cannot help but breathe a sigh | J |
| To think what joy I had | K |
| What ecstasy as I would seek | L |
| To make my rhyme come right | M |
| And find at last the phrase unique | L |
| Flash fulgent in my sight | M |
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| Maybe that rapture was my gain | N |
| Far more than cheap success | O |
| So I'll forget my striving vain | N |
| And blot out bitterness | P |
| Oh records of my radiant youth | Q |
| No broken heart I'll rue | C |
| For all my best of love and truth | Q |
| Is there alive in you | C |
Robert Service
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