Procreation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBB CDCDBB EFEGHH DIDIJJ| It hurts my pride that I should be | A |
| The issue of a night of lust | B |
| Yet even Bishops you'll agree | A |
| Obey the biologic 'must' | B |
| Though no doubt with more dignity | B |
| Than we of layman dust | B |
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| I think the Lord made a mistake | C |
| When he designed the human race | D |
| That man and angel in the make | C |
| Should have brutality for base | D |
| Jehovah might have planned at least | B |
| Not to confound us with the beast | B |
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| So with humiliation I | E |
| Think of my basic origin | F |
| And yet with some relief I sigh | E |
| I might have been conceived in sin | G |
| Instead of being I believe | H |
| The offspring of a nuptial eve | H |
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| So when I look in beauty's face | D |
| Or that of king or saint or sage | I |
| It seems to me I darkly trace | D |
| Their being to a rutting rage | I |
| Had I been Deity's adviser | J |
| Meseems I might have planned it wiser | J |
Robert Service
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