Sentimental Shark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFFGG HHIIJJIIKL MMNNOOPPQQ RRSSMMTTHH| Give me a cabin in the woods | A |
| Where not a human soul intrudes | B |
| Where I can sit beside a stream | C |
| Beneath a balsam bough and deam | C |
| And every morning see arise | D |
| The sun like bird of paradise | E |
| Then go down to the creek and fish | F |
| A speckled trout for breakfast dish | F |
| And fry it in an ember fire | G |
| Ah there's the life of my desire | G |
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| Alas I'm tied to Wall Street where | H |
| They reckon me a millionaire | H |
| And sometimes in a day alone | I |
| I gain a fortune o'er the 'phone | I |
| Yet I to be a man was made | J |
| And here I ply this sorry trade | J |
| Of Company manipulation | I |
| Of selling short and stock inflation | I |
| I whom God meant to rope a steer | K |
| Fate mad a Wall Street buccaneer | L |
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| Old Time how I envy you | M |
| Who do the things I long to do | M |
| Oh I would swap you all my riches | N |
| To step into your buckskin britches | N |
| Your ragged shirt and rugged health | O |
| I'd take in trade for all my wealth | O |
| Then shorn of fortune you would see | P |
| How drunk with freedom I would be | P |
| I'd kick so hard I'd kick so high | Q |
| I'd kick the moon clean from the sky | Q |
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| Aye gold to me is less than brass | R |
| And jewels mean no more than glass | R |
| My gold is sunshine and my gems | S |
| The glint of dew on grassy stems | S |
| Yet though I hate my guts its true | M |
| Time sorta makes you used to you | M |
| And so I will not gripe too much | T |
| Because I have the Midas touch | T |
| But doodle on my swivel chair | H |
| Resigned to be a millionaire | H |
Robert Service
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