Sinister Sooth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDE FGFHII JKLKMNYou say I am the slave of Fate | A |
Bound by unalterable laws | B |
I harken but your words I hate | A |
Your damnable Effect and Cause | C |
If there's no hope for happy Chance | D |
Give me the bliss of ignorance | E |
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You say my life ends with the tomb | F |
This brain my mind machine will rot | G |
Its many million cells that room | F |
My personality and thought | H |
Will in the Dark Destroyer's term | I |
Provide a banquet for the worm | I |
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You say yet though your wisdom wells | J |
To it I am unreconciled | K |
My mind admits my heart rebels | L |
O let me listen like a child | K |
To Him who spoke with blessed breath | M |
From bench of toil in Nazareth | N |
Robert Service
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