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 aboutA
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GrinB
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If you're feeling pretty groggy and you're licked beyond a doubtA
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GrinB
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Don't let him see you're funking let him know with every cloutA
Though your face is battered to a pulp your blooming heart is stoutA
Just stand upon your pins until the beggar knocks you outA
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And grinB
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This life's a bally battle and the same advice holds trueC
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Of grinB
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If you're up against it badly then it's only one on youC
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So grinB
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If the future's black as thunder don't let people see you're blueC
Just cultivate a cast iron smile of joy the whole day throughC
If they call you Little Sunshine wish that THEY'D no troubles tooC
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You may grinB
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Rise up in the morning with the will that smooth or roughD
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You'll grinB
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Sink to sleep at midnight and although you're feeling toughD
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Yet grinB
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There's nothing gained by whining and you're not that kind of stuffD
You're a fighter from away back and you WON'T take a rebuffD
Your trouble is that you don't know when you have had enoughD
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Don't give inB
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If Fate should down you just get up and take another cuffD
You may bank on it that there is no philosophy like bluffD
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And grinB

Robert Service



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