Externalism Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD DEDEFGFG DDDDHDHD IGIGJKJK DGDGLMLM NONODGPG ADADQGQGThe Greatest Writer of to day | A |
With Maupassant I almost set him | B |
Said to me in a weary way | A |
The last occasion that I met him | B |
Old chap this world is more and more | C |
Becoming bourgeois blas eacute blousy | D |
Thank God I've lived so long before | C |
It got so definitely lousy | D |
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Said I Old chap I don't agree | D |
Why should one so dispraise the present | E |
For gainful guys like you and me | D |
It still can be extremely pleasant | E |
Have we not Women Wine and Song | F |
A gleeful trio to my thinking | G |
So blithely we can get along | F |
With laughing loving eating drinking | G |
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Said he Dear Boy it may be so | D |
But I'm fed up with war and worry | D |
I would escape this world of woe | D |
Of wrath and wrong of hate and hurry | D |
I fain would gain the peace of mind | H |
Of Lamas on Thibetan highlands | D |
Or maybe sanctuary find | H |
With beach combers on coral islands | D |
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Said I Dear Boy don't go so far | I |
Just live a life of simple being | G |
Forgetting all the ills that are | I |
Be satisfied with hearing seeing | G |
The sense of smell and taste and touch | J |
Can bring you bliss in ample measure | K |
If only you don't think too much | J |
Your programme can be packed with pleasure | K |
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But do not try to probe below | D |
This fairy film of Nature's screening | G |
Look on it as a surface show | D |
Without a purpose of a meaning | G |
Take no account of social strife | L |
And dread no coming cataclysm | M |
Let your philosophy of life | L |
Be what I call EXTERNALISM | M |
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The moon shines down with borrowed light | N |
So savants say I do not doubt it | O |
Suffice its silver trance my sight | N |
That's all I want to know about it | O |
A fig for science 'how' and 'why' | D |
Distract me in my happy dreaming | G |
Through line and form and colour I | P |
Am all content with outward seeming | G |
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The Greatest Writer of to day | A |
I would have loved to call him Willie | D |
looked wry at me and went his way | A |
I think he thought me rather silly | D |
Maybe I am but I insist | Q |
My point of view will take some beating | G |
Don't mock this old Externalist | Q |
The pudding's proof is in the eating | G |
Robert Service
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