Freethinker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBDEFEF GHGIJKJK LMNMKOKO EPEPDEDE| Although the Preacher be a bore | A |
| The Atheist is even more | A |
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| I ain't religious worth a damn | B |
| My views are reckoned to be broad | C |
| And yet I shut up like a clam | B |
| When folks get figgerin' on God | D |
| I'd hate my kids to think like me | E |
| And though they leave me in the lurch | F |
| I'm always mighty glad to see | E |
| My fam'ly trot to Church | F |
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| Although of books I have a shelf | G |
| Of skeptic stuff I must confess | H |
| I keep their knowledge to myself | G |
| Doubt doesn't help to happiness | I |
| I never scoff at Holy Writ | J |
| But envy those who hold it true | K |
| And though I've never been in it | J |
| I'm proud to own a pew | K |
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| I always was a doubting Tom | L |
| I guess some lads are born that way | M |
| I couldn't stick religion from | N |
| The time I broke the Sabbath Day | M |
| Yet unbelief's a bitter brew | K |
| And this in arid ways I've learned | O |
| If you believe a thing it's true | K |
| As far as your concerned | O |
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| I'm sentimental I agree | E |
| For how it always makes me glad | P |
| To turn from Ingersoll and see | E |
| My little girls Communion clad | P |
| And as to church my people plod | D |
| I cry to them with simple glee | E |
| Say folks if you should talk to God | D |
| Put in a word for me | E |
Robert Service
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