My Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFEFGH IJIJKK LMLMNN OPOQBB KRSTUU| Before I drink myself to death | A |
| God let me finish up my Book | B |
| At night I fear I fight for breath | A |
| And wake up whiter than a spook | C |
| And crawl off to a bistro near | D |
| And drink until my brain is clear | D |
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| Rare Absinthe Oh it gives me strength | E |
| To write and write and so I spend | F |
| Day after day until at length | E |
| With joy and pain I'll write The End | F |
| Then let this carcase rot I give | G |
| The world my Book my Book will live | H |
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| For every line is tense with truth | I |
| There's hope and joy on every page | J |
| A cheer a clarion call to Youth | I |
| A hymn a comforter to Age | J |
| All's there that I was meant to be | K |
| My part divine the God in me | K |
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| It's of my life the golden sum | L |
| Ah who that reads this Book of mine | M |
| In stormy centuries to come | L |
| Will dream I rooted with the swine | M |
| Behold I give mankind my best | N |
| What does it matter all the rest | N |
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| It's this that makes sublime my day | O |
| It's this that makes me struggle on | P |
| Oh let them mock my mortal clay | O |
| My spirit's deathless as the dawn | Q |
| Oh let them shudder as they look | B |
| I'll be immortal in my Book | B |
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| And so beside the sullen Seine | K |
| I fight with dogs for filthy food | R |
| Yet know that from my sin and pain | S |
| Will soar serene a Something Good | T |
| Exultantly from shame and wrong | U |
| A Right a Glory and a Song | U |
Robert Service
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