Familiarity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FG GHIHG JKJKLMLM| Familiarity some claim | A |
| Can breed contempt | B |
| So from it let it be your aim | A |
| To be exempt | B |
| Let no one exercise his brawn | C |
| To slap your back | D |
| Lest he forget your name is John | E |
| And call you Jack | D |
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| To those who crash your private pew | F |
| Be sour as krout | G |
| Don't let them see the real 'you ' | - |
| And bawl you out | G |
| Don't call your Cousin William Bill | H |
| But formal be | I |
| Have care Beware and shun famil | H |
| Iarity | G |
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| I'm quite polite My hat I doff | J |
| But little say | K |
| I give the crowd the big brush off | J |
| And go my way | K |
| To common folk I do not freeze | L |
| I am no snob | M |
| But though my name is Robert please | L |
| Don't call me BOB | M |
Robert Service
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