Sympathy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFGGF HHIJJI JJGKKKG| My Muse is simple yet it's nice | A |
| To think you don't need to think twice | A |
| On words I write | B |
| I reckon I've a common touch | C |
| And if you say I cuss too much | C |
| I answer 'Quite ' | D |
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| I envy not the poet's lot | E |
| He has something I haven't got | E |
| Alas I know | F |
| But I have something maybe he | G |
| Would envy just a mite in me | G |
| I'm rather low | F |
| - | |
| For I am cast of common clay | H |
| And from a ditch I fought my way | H |
| And that is why | I |
| The while the poet scans the skies | J |
| My gaze is grimly gutterwise | J |
| Earthy am I | I |
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| And yet I have a gift perhaps | J |
| Denied to proud poetic chaps | J |
| Who scoff at me | G |
| I know the hearts of humble folk | K |
| I too have bowed beneath the yoke | K |
| So let my verse for them evoke | K |
| Your sympathy | G |
Robert Service
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