Reverence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDC EFEFGHGH IJKJCLLC MGMGNOON GPGPKQQK GGG| I saw the Greatest Man on Earth | A |
| Aye saw him with my proper eyes | B |
| A loin cloth spanned his proper girth | A |
| But he was naked otherwise | B |
| Excepting for his grey sombrero | C |
| And when his domelike head he bared | D |
| With reverence I stared and stared | D |
| As mummified as any Pharaoh | C |
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| He leaned upon a little cane | E |
| A big cigar was in his mouth | F |
| Through spectacles of yellow stain | E |
| He gazed and gazed toward the South | F |
| And then he dived into the sea | G |
| As if to Corsica to swim | H |
| His side stroke was so strong and free | G |
| I could not help but envy him | H |
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| A fitter man than I I said | I |
| Although his age is more than mine | J |
| And I was strangely comforted | K |
| To see him battle in the brine | J |
| Thought I We have no cause for sorrow | C |
| For one so dynamic to day | L |
| Will gird him for the future fray | L |
| And lead us lion like to morrow | C |
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| The Greatest Man in all the world | M |
| Lay lazing like you or me | G |
| Within a flimsy bathrobe curled | M |
| Upon a mattress by the sea | G |
| He reached to pat a tou tou's nose | N |
| And scratched his torso now and then | O |
| And scribbled with a fountain pen | O |
| What I assumed was jewelled prose | N |
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| And then methought he looked at me | G |
| And hailed me with a gesture grand | P |
| His fingers made the letter V | G |
| So I too went to raise my hand | P |
| When nigh to me the barman glided | K |
| With liquid gold and then I knew | Q |
| He merely called for cock tails two | Q |
| And so abjectly I subsided | K |
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| Yet I have had my moment's glory | G |
| A squatting nigh that Mighty Tory | G |
| Proud Hero of our Island Story | G |
Robert Service
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