God's Skallywags Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGI JKJKLILI MNMNOPOP| The God of Scribes looked down and saw | A |
| The bitter band of seven | B |
| Who had outraged his holy law | A |
| And lost their hope of Heaven | B |
| Came Villon petty thief and pimp | C |
| And obscene Baudelaire | D |
| And Byron with his letcher limp | C |
| And Poe with starry stare | D |
| - | |
| And Wilde who lived his hell on earth | E |
| And Burns the baudy bard | F |
| And Francis Thompson from his birth | E |
| Malevolently starred | F |
| As like a line of livid ghosts | G |
| They started to paradise | H |
| The galaxy of Heaven's hosts | G |
| Looked down in soft surmise | I |
| - | |
| Said God You bastards of my love | J |
| You are my chosen sons | K |
| Come I will set you high above | J |
| These merely holy ones | K |
| Your sins you've paid in gall and grief | L |
| So to these radiant skies | I |
| Seducer drunkard dopester thief | L |
| Immortally arise | I |
| - | |
| I am your Father fond and just | M |
| And all your folly see | N |
| Your beastiality and lust | M |
| I also know in me | N |
| You did the task I gave to you | O |
| Arise and sit beside | P |
| My Son the best beloved who | O |
| Was also crucified | P |
Robert Service
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about God's Skallywags poem by Robert Service
Best Poems of Robert Service