Infirmities Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCDBEEEFGGGF HHHIJJJI EEEEKKKE| Because my teeth are feebly few | A |
| I cannot bolt my grub like you | A |
| But have to chew and chew and chew | A |
| As you can see | B |
| Yet every mouthful seems so good | C |
| I would not haste it if I could | C |
| And so I salivate my food | D |
| With ecstasy | B |
| Because my purse is poor in pence | E |
| I spend my dough with common sense | E |
| And live without the least pretence | E |
| In simple state | F |
| The things I can't afford to buy | G |
| Might speed the day I have to die | G |
| So pleased with poverty am I | G |
| And bless my fate | F |
| - | |
| Because my heart is growing tired | H |
| No more by foolish passion fired | H |
| Nor by ambitious hope inspired | H |
| As in my youth | I |
| I am content to sit and rest | J |
| And prove the last of life's the best | J |
| And ponder with a cheerful zest | J |
| Some saintly truth | I |
| - | |
| Because I cannot do the things | E |
| I used to comfort round me clings | E |
| And from the moil of market brings | E |
| Me rich release | E |
| So welcome age with tranquil mind | K |
| Even infirmities are kind | K |
| And in our frailing we may find | K |
| Life's crown of peace | E |
Robert Service
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