Grin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B A B AAA B C B C B CCC B D B D B DDD B DD B| If you're up against a bruiser and you're getting knocked about | A |
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| Grin | B |
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| If you're feeling pretty groggy and you're licked beyond a doubt | A |
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| Grin | B |
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| Don't let him see you're funking let him know with every clout | A |
| Though your face is battered to a pulp your blooming heart is stout | A |
| Just stand upon your pins until the beggar knocks you out | A |
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| And grin | B |
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| This life's a bally battle and the same advice holds true | C |
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| Of grin | B |
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| If you're up against it badly then it's only one on you | C |
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| So grin | B |
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| If the future's black as thunder don't let people see you're blue | C |
| Just cultivate a cast iron smile of joy the whole day through | C |
| If they call you Little Sunshine wish that THEY'D no troubles too | C |
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| You may grin | B |
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| Rise up in the morning with the will that smooth or rough | D |
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| You'll grin | B |
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| Sink to sleep at midnight and although you're feeling tough | D |
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| Yet grin | B |
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| There's nothing gained by whining and you're not that kind of stuff | D |
| You're a fighter from away back and you WON'T take a rebuff | D |
| Your trouble is that you don't know when you have had enough | D |
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| Don't give in | B |
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| If Fate should down you just get up and take another cuff | D |
| You may bank on it that there is no philosophy like bluff | D |
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| And grin | B |
Robert Service
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