Red-tiled Roof Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJBHBBH| Poets may praise a wattle thatch | A |
| Doubtfully waterproof | B |
| Let me uplift my lowly latch | A |
| Beneath a rose tiled roof | B |
| Let it be gay and rich in hue | C |
| Soft bleached by burning days | D |
| Where skies ineffably are blue | C |
| And seas a golden glaze | D |
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| But set me in the surly North | E |
| Beneath a roof of slate | F |
| And as I sourly sally forth | E |
| My heart will hum with hate | F |
| And I will brood beneath a pine | G |
| Where Nature seldom smiles | H |
| Heart longing for a starry vine | G |
| And roof of ruddy tiles | H |
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| For oh the South's a bonny clime | I |
| And sunshine is its life | J |
| So there I'll finish up my time | I |
| A stranger unto strife | J |
| And smoke my pipe and sit aloof | B |
| From care by miles and miles | H |
| Sagaciously beneath a roof | B |
| Geranium gay and panic proof | B |
| Of ruby tinted tiles | H |
Robert Service
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