Silence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EBEBFGFG HEHEICIC JKLKMNON| When I was cub reporter I | A |
| Would interview the Great | B |
| And sometimes they would make reply | A |
| And sometimes hesitate | B |
| But often they would sharply say | C |
| With bushy eyebrows bent | D |
| Young man your answer for to day | C |
| Is No Comment | D |
| - | |
| Nigh sixty years have called the tune | E |
| And silver is my pate | B |
| No longer do I importune | E |
| Important men of state | B |
| But time has made me wise and so | F |
| When button holed I shake | G |
| My head and say To day I've no | F |
| Comment to make | G |
| - | |
| Oh silence is a mighty shield | H |
| Verbosity is vain | E |
| let others wordy warfare wield | H |
| From arguments abstain | E |
| When faced with dialectic foes | I |
| Just shrug and turn away | C |
| Be sure your wisest words are those | I |
| You do not say | C |
| - | |
| Yea Silence is a gleaming sword | J |
| Whose wounds are hard to heal | K |
| Its quiet stuns the spoken word | L |
| More than a thunder peal | K |
| Against it there is no defense | M |
| For like the grave yard sod | N |
| Its hush is Heaven's eloquence | O |
| The VOICE OF GOD | N |
Robert Service
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