Boon Soul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCACA DEDEAAAA AAAAFAFA ACACFAGA| Behold I'm old my hair is white | A |
| My eighty years are in the offing | B |
| And sitting by the fire to night | A |
| I sip a grog to ease my coughing | B |
| It's true I'm raucous as a rook | C |
| But feeling bibulously bardy | A |
| These lines I'm scribbling in a book | C |
| The verse complete of Thomas Hardy | A |
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| Although to day he's read by few | D |
| Him have I loved beyond all measure | E |
| So here to night I riffle through | D |
| His pages with the oldtime pleasure | E |
| And with this book upon my knee | A |
| To day so woefully neglected | A |
| I muse and think how soon I'll be | A |
| Myself among the Great Rejected | A |
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| Yet as these lines with zest I write | A |
| Although the hour for me is tardy | A |
| I think Of all the world to night | A |
| 'Tis I alone am reading Hardy | A |
| And now to me he seems so nigh | F |
| I feel I commune with his spirit | A |
| And as none love him more than I | F |
| Thereby I gain a modest merit | A |
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| Oh Brother Thomas glad I'll be | A |
| Though all the world may pass unheeding | C |
| If some greybeard con over me | A |
| As I to night your rhymes are reading | C |
| Saying Old Bastard you and I | F |
| By sin are knit in mind and body | A |
| So ere to hit the hay I hie | G |
| Your ghost I'll toast in midnight toddy | A |
Robert Service
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