Pragmatic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE EGEGHIHI JKJKLELEWhen young I was an Atheist | A |
Yea pompous as a pigeon | B |
No opportunity I missed | C |
To satirize religion | B |
I sneered at Scripture scoffed at Faith | D |
I blasphemed at believers | E |
Said I There's nothing after Death | F |
Your priests are just deceivers | E |
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In middle age I was not so | E |
Contemptuous and caustic | G |
Thought I There's much I do not know | E |
I'd better be agnostic | G |
The hope of immortality | H |
'Tis foolish to be flouting | I |
So in the end I came to be | H |
A doubter of my doubting | I |
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Now I am old with steps inclined | J |
To hesitate and falter | K |
I find I get such peace of mind | J |
Just sitting by an altar | K |
So Friends don't scorn the family pew | L |
The preachments of the kirks | E |
Religion may be false or true | L |
But by the Lord it works | E |
Robert Service
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