Prelude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHIHI EJEJKLKL| In youth I gnawed life's bitter rind | A |
| And shared the rugged lot | B |
| Of fellows rude and unrefined | A |
| Frustrated and forgot | B |
| And now alas it is too late | C |
| My sorry ways to mend | D |
| So sadly I accept my fate | C |
| A Roughneck to the end | D |
| - | |
| Profanity is in my voice | E |
| And slag is in my rhyme | F |
| For I have mucked with men who curse | G |
| And grovel in the grime | F |
| My fingers were not formed I fear | H |
| To frame a pretty pen | I |
| So please forgive me if I veer | H |
| From Virtue now and then | I |
| - | |
| For I would be the living voice | E |
| Though raucous is its tone | J |
| Of men who rarely may rejoice | E |
| Yet barely ever moan | J |
| The rovers of the raw ribbed lands | K |
| The lads of lowly worth | L |
| The scallywags with scaley hands | K |
| Who weld the ends of earth | L |
Robert Service
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