My Coffin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDF GHGHIJIJ KAKALMLM NONOAPAP| Deeming that I was due to die | A |
| I framed myself a coffin | B |
| So full of graveyard zeal was I | A |
| I set the folks a laughing | C |
| I made it snugly to my fit | D |
| My joinering was honest | E |
| And sometimes in it I would sit | D |
| And fancy I was non est | F |
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| I stored it on my cabin shelf | G |
| Forever to remind me | H |
| When I was tickled with myself | G |
| That Death was close behind me | H |
| Let's be prepared I used to say | I |
| E're in the Dark we launch us | J |
| And so with boding day by day | I |
| I kept me coffin conscious | J |
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| Then came that winter dark as doom | K |
| No firing wood had I | A |
| My shack was icy as a tomb | K |
| And I was set to die | A |
| But e'er the losing of my wits | L |
| I saw that coffin there | M |
| S smashing the damned thing to bits | L |
| I made a gorgeous flare | M |
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| I never saw a flame so bright | N |
| So goldenly divine | O |
| As starred the blackness of the night | N |
| That boneyard box of mine | O |
| And now I go forth coffin shy | A |
| With no more carnal fears | P |
| For radiantly sure am I | A |
| I'll stack a hundred years | P |
Robert Service
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