Gentle Gaoler Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC BDBDEE FGFGHH IJIKLLBeing a gaoler I'm supposed | A |
To be a hard boiled guy | B |
Yet never prison walls enclosed | A |
A kinder soul than I | B |
Passing my charges precious pills | C |
To end their ills | C |
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And if in gentle sleep they die | B |
And pass to pleasant peace | D |
No one suspects that it is I | B |
Who gave them their release | D |
No matter what the Doctor thinks | E |
The Warden winks | E |
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A lifer's is a fearful fate | F |
It wrings the heart of me | G |
And what a saving to the State | F |
A sudden death must be | G |
Doomed men should have the legal right | H |
To end their plight | H |
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And so my veronel they take | I |
And bid goodbye to pain | J |
And sleep and never never wake | I |
To living hell again | K |
Oh call me curst or call me blest | L |
I give them rest | L |
Robert Service
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