Contentment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EDEDFCF GHGHIJI CHCHIHIH| An Ancient gaffer once I knew | A |
| Who puffed a pipe and tossed a tankard | B |
| He claimed a hundred years or two | A |
| And for a dozen more he hankered | B |
| So o'er a pint I asked how he | C |
| Had kept his timbers tight together | D |
| He grinned and answered It maun be | C |
| Because I likes all kinds o' weather | D |
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| Fore every morn when I get up | E |
| I lights my clay pipe wi' a cinder | D |
| And as me mug o' tea I sup | E |
| I looks from out the cottage winder | D |
| And if it's shade or if it's shine | F |
| Or wind or snow befit to freeze me | C |
| I always say 'Well now that's fine | F |
| It's just the sorto' day to please me ' | - |
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| For I have found it wise in life | G |
| To take the luck the way it's coming | H |
| A wake a worry or a wife | G |
| Just carry on and keep a humming | H |
| And so I lights me pipe o' clay | I |
| And through the morn on blizzard borders | J |
| I chuckle in me guts and say | I |
| 'It's just the day the doctor orders ' | - |
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| A mighty good philosophy | C |
| Thought I and leads to longer living | H |
| To make the best of things that be | C |
| And take the weather of God's giving | H |
| So though the sky be ashen grey | I |
| And winds be edged and sleet be slanting | H |
| Heap faggots on the fire and say | I |
| It's just the kind of day I'm wanting | H |
Robert Service
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