Jim Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EF EGHIHI JKJKLKLK MGMGKGKG| He was a traveling tinker lad | A |
| And I was a gypsy jade | B |
| Yet never were two so gay and glad | A |
| And a perfect pair we made | B |
| Bruises I've known since life began | C |
| Blows and the love that smothers | D |
| But I'd rather have the curse of my man | C |
| Than the kisses of all others | D |
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| When Black Mike called me a lousy bitch | E |
| Jim was so mad like hell 'e | F |
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| Flammed and Mike lay there in the ditch | E |
| With a jack knife in his belly | G |
| Then came the cops and they put away | H |
| My bully behind the bars | I |
| And he'll lose for a score of years they say | H |
| The light o' the larky stars | I |
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| And yet in spite o' his dismal doom | J |
| No garb of woe I'm wearing | K |
| For the seed of him is in my womb | J |
| And son for him I'm bearing | K |
| And when they swing the prison gate | L |
| And him like blind they're leading | K |
| His boy and I with bliss will wait | L |
| Although our hearts are bleeding | K |
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| Then we will take with wildwood track | M |
| And he'll be wae and weary | G |
| But when he gets his manhood back | M |
| And beats me I'll be cheery | G |
| And maybe some fowl's neck I'll wring | K |
| And maybe we'll get tipsy | G |
| So by a thorn fire how we'll sing | K |
| What heaven for a gypsy | G |
Robert Service
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