The Ape And God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGCHC IJIJKAKA ALALMNMN| Son put a poser up to me | A |
| That made me scratch my head | B |
| God made the whole wide world quoth he | A |
| That's right my boy I said | B |
| Said son He mad the mountains soar | C |
| And all the plains lie flat | D |
| But Dad what did he do before | C |
| He did all that | D |
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| Said I Creation was his biz | E |
| He set the stars to shine | F |
| The sun and moon and all that is | E |
| Were His unique design | F |
| The Cosmos is his concrete thought | G |
| The Universe his chore | C |
| Said Son I understand but what | H |
| Did He before | C |
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| I gave it up I could not cope | I |
| With his enquiring prod | J |
| And must admit I've little hope | I |
| Of understanding God | J |
| Indeed I find more to my mind | K |
| The monkey in the tree | A |
| In whose crude form Nature defined | K |
| Our human destiny | A |
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| Thought I Why search for Deity | A |
| In visionary shape | L |
| 'Twould better be if we could see | A |
| The angel in the ape | L |
| Let mystic seek a God above | M |
| Far wiser he who delves | N |
| To find in kindliness and love | M |
| God in ourselves | N |
Robert Service
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