The Hearth-stone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCB CDCDCD EAEAEA FGHGHG IJIJKJ| The leaves are sick and jaundiced they | A |
| Drift down the air | B |
| December's sky is sodden grey | A |
| Dark with despair | B |
| A bleary dawn will light anon | C |
| A world of care | B |
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| My name is cut into a stone | C |
| No care have I | D |
| The letters drool as I alone | C |
| Forgotten lie | D |
| With weed my grave is overgrown | C |
| None cometh nigh | D |
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| A hundred hollow years will speed | E |
| As I decay | A |
| And I'll be comrade to the weed | E |
| Kin to the clay | A |
| Until some hind in homing need | E |
| Will pass my way | A |
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| Until some lover seeking hearth | F |
| With joy will see | G |
| My nameless stone sunk in the earth | H |
| And it will be | G |
| The ruddy birth of childish mirth | H |
| And elder glee | G |
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| And none will dream it bore my name | I |
| Decades ago | J |
| A scribbling fool of little fame | I |
| Who loved life so | J |
| Well flesh is grass and Time must pass | K |
| Heigh ho Heigh ho | J |
Robert Service
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