Old Scout Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJEKEK LMLMNENE| Is it because I'm bent and grey | A |
| Though wearing rather well | B |
| That I can slickly get away | A |
| With all the yarns I tell | B |
| Is it because my bleary eye | C |
| No longer beams with youth | D |
| That I can plant a whopping lie | C |
| And flout the truth | D |
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| I wonder why folks hark to me | E |
| Where once they would have laughed | F |
| They treat my yarns respectfully | E |
| No matter how they're daft | F |
| They count the notches on my gun | G |
| And stroke its polished butt | H |
| Wanting to know why every one | G |
| Of them was cut | H |
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| Indeed were I to stick to fact | I |
| Their interest would flag | J |
| Dramatically I must act | I |
| The r le of scalliwag | J |
| A battle veteran to be | E |
| A frozen argonaut | K |
| A castaway in coral sea | E |
| Such a tommyrot | K |
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| And so with unction I conceive | L |
| Invention wild and new | M |
| Until I'm coming to believe | L |
| My taradiddles true | M |
| Is it because I'm old and sage | N |
| I draw a bow that's risky | E |
| Or can it be that lies with age | N |
| Improve like whisky | E |
Robert Service
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