Portrait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBAADEED AAFGGFHIJCCJ CCGGGGKKLDDDL| Painter would you make my picture | A |
| Just forget the moral stricture | A |
| Let me sit | B |
| With my belly to the table | C |
| Swilling all the wine I'm able | C |
| Pip a lit | B |
| Not a stiff and stuffy croaker | A |
| In a frock coat and a choker | A |
| Let me be | D |
| But a rollicking old fellow | E |
| With a visage ripe and mellow | E |
| As you see | D |
| - | |
| Just a twinkle eyed old codger | A |
| And of death as artful dodger | A |
| Such I am | F |
| I defy the Doc's advising | G |
| And I don't for sermonising | G |
| Care a damn | F |
| Though Bill Shakespeare had in his dome | H |
| Both I'd rather wit than wisdom | I |
| For my choice | J |
| In the glug glug of the bottle | C |
| As I tip it down my throttle | C |
| I rejoice | J |
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| Paint me neither sour not soulful | C |
| For I would not have folks doleful | C |
| When I go | G |
| So if to my shade you're quaffing | G |
| I would rather see you laughing | G |
| As you know | G |
| In Life's Great Experiment | K |
| I'll have heaps of merriment | K |
| E're I pass | L |
| And though devil beckons me | D |
| And I've many a speck on me | D |
| Maybe some will recon me | D |
| Worth a glass | L |
Robert Service
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