My Cross Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDEFGFG HIHIJKJK LMNMOEOE| I wrote a poem to the moon | A |
| But no one noticed it | B |
| Although I hoped that late or soon | A |
| Someone would praise a bit | B |
| Its purity and grace forlone | A |
| Its beauty tulip cool | C |
| But as my poem died still born | A |
| I felt a fool | C |
| - | |
| I wrote a verse of vulgar trend | D |
| Spiced with an oath or two | E |
| I tacked a snapper at the end | D |
| And called it Dan McGrew | E |
| I spouted it to bar room boys | F |
| Full fifty years away | G |
| Yet still with rude and ribald noise | F |
| It lives today | G |
| - | |
| 'Tis bitter truth but there you are | H |
| That's how a name is made | I |
| Write of a rose a lark a star | H |
| You'll never make the grade | I |
| But write of gutter and of grime | J |
| Of pimp and prostitute | K |
| The multitude will read your rhyme | J |
| And pay to boot | K |
| - | |
| So what's the use to burn and bleed | L |
| And strive for beauty's sake | M |
| No one your poetry will read | N |
| Your heart will only break | M |
| But set your song in vulgar pitch | O |
| If rhyme you will not rue | E |
| And make your heroine a bitch | O |
| Like Lady Lou | E |
Robert Service
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