Gentle Gaoler Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC BDBDEE FGFGHH IJIKLL| Being 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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