Fortitude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD AEAEFGFG HIHJKLKLKL| Time the Jester jeers at you | A |
| Your life's a fleeting breath | B |
| Your birthday's flimsy I O U | A |
| To that old devil Death | B |
| And though to glory you attain | C |
| Or be to beauty born | D |
| Your pomp and vanity are vain | C |
| Time ticks you off with scorn | D |
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| Time the Cynic sneers at you | A |
| And stays you in your stride | E |
| He flouts the daring deeds you do | A |
| And pillories your pride | E |
| The triumph of your yesterday | F |
| He pages with the Past | G |
| He taunts you with the grave's decay | F |
| And calls the score at last | G |
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| All this I now yet what care I | H |
| Despite his dusty word | I |
| I hold my tattered banner high | H |
| And swing my broken sword | J |
| In blackest night I glimpse a gleam | K |
| And nurse a faith sublime | L |
| To do to dare to hope to dream | K |
| to fight you Foeman Time | L |
| Yea in the dark a deathless beam | K |
| To smite you Tyrant Time | L |
Robert Service
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