Belated Conscience Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDEFGFG HGHGCICITo buy for school a copy book | A |
I asked my Dad for two pence | B |
He gave it with a gentle look | A |
Although he had but few pence | B |
'Twas then I proved myself a crook | A |
And came a moral cropper | C |
I bought a penny copy book | A |
And blued the other copper | C |
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I spent it on a sausage roll | D |
Gulped down with guilt suggestion | E |
To the damnation of my soul | D |
And awful indigestion | E |
Poor Dad His job was hard to hold | F |
His mouths to feed were many | G |
Were he alive a millionfold | F |
I'd pay him for his penny | G |
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Now nigh the grave I think with grief | H |
Though other sins are many | G |
I am a liar and a thief | H |
'Cause once I stole a penny | G |
Yet be he pious as a friar | C |
It is my firm believing | I |
That every man has been a liar | C |
And most of us done thieving | I |
Robert Service
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