My Tails Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGAGA HIIIIAIA| I haven't worn my evening dress | A |
| For nearly twenty years | B |
| Oh I'm unsocial I confess | A |
| A hermit it appears | B |
| So much moth balled it's but away | C |
| And though wee wifie wails | D |
| Never unto my dimmest day | C |
| I'll don my tails | D |
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| How slim and trim I looked in them | E |
| Though I was sixty old | F |
| And now their sleekness I condemn | E |
| To lie in rigid fold | F |
| I have a portrait of myself | G |
| Proud printed in the Press | A |
| In garb now doomed to wardrobe shelf | G |
| My evening dress | A |
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| So let this be my last request | H |
| That when I come to die | I |
| In tails I may be deftly drest | I |
| With white waistcoat and tie | I |
| No not for me a vulgar shroud | I |
| My carcass to caress | A |
| Oh let me do my coffin proud | I |
| In evening dress | A |
Robert Service
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