My Rival Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH IIJJKKLL MMGG IINN BBBBOOPPPIf she met him or he met her | A |
I knew that something must occur | A |
For they were just like flint and steel | B |
To strike the spark of woe and weal | B |
Or like two splinters broken fine | C |
In perfect fitness to combine | C |
And so I ept them well apart | D |
For she was precious to my heart | D |
One time we all three met at church | E |
I tried to give the lad the lurch | E |
But heard him say How like a rose | F |
is it your daughter I suppose | F |
Why no said I My wife to be | G |
And sic months gone wi' child is she | G |
He looked astonished and distraught | H |
My boy that's one for you I thought | H |
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The wife asked What a handsome lad | I |
A sailor Somehow she looked sad | I |
And then his memory grew dim | J |
For nevermore she mentioned him | J |
And as I be nigh twice her age | K |
I've always thought it mighty sage | K |
Lest she might one day go astray | L |
To keep her in the breeding way | L |
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Oh did she ever dream of Jack | M |
The boy who nevermore came back | M |
And never will I heard that he | G |
Was drowned in the China Sea | G |
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I told her not lest she be sad | I |
And me It's mean but I was glad | I |
For if he's come into my life | N |
He would have robbed me of my wife | N |
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But when at night by her I lie | B |
And in her sleep I hear her sigh | B |
I have a doubt if I did well | B |
In separating Jack and Nell | B |
And though we have a brood of seven | O |
Yet marriage may be made in Heaven | O |
For Nell has cancer Doctors state | P |
So maybe 'tis the way of fate | P |
That in the end them two may mate | P |
Robert Service
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