It Is Later Than You Think Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHIEDED JEJEKDLD EMEMNDND EOEOPDQD RSRSTDTTDDD| Lone amid the cafe's cheer | A |
| Sad of heart am I to night | B |
| Dolefully I drink my beer | A |
| But no single line I write | B |
| There's the wretched rent to pay | C |
| Yet I glower at pen and ink | D |
| Oh inspire me Muse I pray | C |
| It is later than you think | D |
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| Hello there's a pregnant phrase | E |
| Bravo let me write it down | F |
| Hold it with a hopeful gaze | E |
| Gauge it with a fretful frown | F |
| Tune it to my lyric lyre | G |
| Ah upon starvation's brink | D |
| How the words are dark and dire | G |
| It is later than you think | D |
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| Weigh them well Behold yon band | H |
| Students drinking by the door | I |
| Madly merry bock in hand | H |
| Saucers stacked to mark their score | I |
| Get you gone you jolly scamps | E |
| Let your parting glasses clink | D |
| Seek your long neglected lamps | E |
| It is later than you think | D |
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| Look again yon dainty blonde | J |
| All allure and golden grace | E |
| Oh so willing to respond | J |
| Should you turn a smiling face | E |
| Play your part poor pretty doll | K |
| Feast and frolic pose and prink | D |
| There's the Morgue to end it all | L |
| And it's later than you think | D |
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| Yon's a playwright mark his face | E |
| Puffed and purple tense and tired | M |
| Pasha like he holds his place | E |
| Hated envied and admired | M |
| How you gobble life my friend | N |
| Wine and woman soft and pink | D |
| Well each tether has its end | N |
| Sir it's later than you think | D |
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| See yon living scarecrow pass | E |
| With a wild and wolfish stare | O |
| At each empty absinthe glass | E |
| As if he saw Heaven there | O |
| Poor damned wretch to end your pain | P |
| There is still the Greater Drink | D |
| Yonder waits the sanguine Seine | Q |
| It is later than you think | D |
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| Lastly you who read aye you | R |
| Who this very line may scan | S |
| Think of all you planned to do | R |
| Have you done the best you can | S |
| See the tavern lights are low | T |
| Black's the night and how you shrink | D |
| God and is it time to go | T |
| Ah the clock is always slow | T |
| It is later than you think | D |
| Sadly later than you think | D |
| Far far later than you think | D |
Robert Service
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