The Bohemian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDBAAAB EEEBFFDB GGGBDDDB| Up in my garret bleak and bare | A |
| I tilted back on my broken chair | A |
| And my three old pals were with me there | A |
| Hunger and Thirst and Cold | B |
| Hunger scowled at his scurvy mate | C |
| Cold cowered down by the hollow grate | C |
| And I hated them with a deadly hate | C |
| As old as life is old | B |
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| So up in my garret that's near the sky | D |
| I smiled a smile that was thin and dry | D |
| You've roomed with me twenty year said I | D |
| Hunger and Thirst and Cold | B |
| But now begone down the broken stair | A |
| I've suffered enough of your spite so there | A |
| Bang Bang I slapped on the table bare | A |
| A glittering heap of gold | B |
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| Red flames will jewel my wine to night | E |
| I'll loose my belt that you've lugged so tight | E |
| Ha Ha Dame Fortune is smiling bright | E |
| The stuff of my brain I've sold | B |
| Canaille of the gutter up Away | F |
| You've battened on me for a bitter long day | F |
| But I'm driving you forth and forever and aye | D |
| Hunger and Thirst and Cold | B |
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| So I kicked them out with a scornful roar | G |
| Yet oh they turned at the garret door | G |
| Quietly there they spoke once more | G |
| The tale is not all told | B |
| It's au revoir but it's not good by | D |
| We're yours old chap till the day you die | D |
| Laugh on you fool Oh you'll never defy | D |
| Hunger and Thirst and Cold | B |
Robert Service
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