Detachment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKHKH LBLBMFMF| As I go forth from fair to mart | A |
| With racket ringing | B |
| Who would divine that in my heart | A |
| Mad larks are singing | B |
| As I sweet sympathy express | C |
| Lest I should pain them | D |
| The money mongers cannot guess | C |
| How I disdain them | D |
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| As I sit at some silly tea | E |
| And flirt and flatter | F |
| How I abhor society | E |
| And female chatter | F |
| As I with wonderment survey | G |
| Their peacock dresses | H |
| My mind is wafted far away | G |
| To wildernesses | H |
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| As I sit in some raucous pub | I |
| Taboo to women | J |
| And treat myself to greasy grub | I |
| I feel quite human | J |
| Yet there I dream despite the din | K |
| Of God's green spaces | H |
| And sweetly dwell the peace within | K |
| Of sylvan graces | H |
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| And so I wear my daily mask | L |
| Of pleasant seeming | B |
| And nobody takes me to task | L |
| For distant dreaming | B |
| A happy hypocrite am I | M |
| Of ambiance inner | F |
| Who smiling make the same reply | M |
| To saint and sinner | F |
Robert Service
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