Old Codger Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHIHI JIKILMLM| Of garden truck he made his fare | A |
| As his bright eyes bore witness | B |
| Health was his habit and his care | A |
| His hobby human fitness | B |
| He sang the praise of open sky | C |
| The gladth of Nature's giving | D |
| And when at last he came to die | C |
| It was of too long living | D |
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| He held aloof from hate and strife | E |
| Drank peace in dreamful doses | F |
| He never voted in his life | E |
| Loved children dogs and roses | G |
| Let tyrants romp in gory glee | H |
| And revolutions roister | I |
| He passed his days as peacefully | H |
| As friar in a cloister | I |
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| So fellow sinners should you choose | J |
| Of doom to be a dodger | I |
| At eighty be a bland recluse | K |
| Like this serene old codger | I |
| Who turned his back on fear and fret | L |
| And died nigh eighty seven | M |
| His name was Robert Service let | L |
| Us hope he went to Heaven | M |
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