The Rhyme Of The Remittance Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBDB EFGFGBHB DIDJGKGK CLCLAMNM CGOGAPAP| There's a four pronged buck a swinging in the shadow of my cabin | A |
| And it roamed the velvet valley till to day | B |
| But I tracked it by the river and I trailed it in the cover | C |
| And I killed it on the mountain miles away | B |
| Now I've had my lazy supper and the level sun is gleaming | D |
| On the water where the silver salmon play | B |
| And I light my little corn cob and I linger softly dreaming | D |
| In the twilight of a land that's far away | B |
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| Far away so faint and far is flaming London fevered Paris | E |
| That I fancy I have gained another star | F |
| Far away the din and hurry far away the sin and worry | G |
| Far away God knows they cannot be too far | F |
| Gilded galley slaves of Mammon how my purse proud brothers taunt me | G |
| I might have been as well to do as they | B |
| Had I clutched like them my chances learned their wisdom crushed my fancies | H |
| Starved my soul and gone to business every day | B |
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| Well the cherry bends with blossom and the vivid grass is springing | D |
| And the star like lily nestles in the green | I |
| And the frogs their joys are singing and my heart in tune is ringing | D |
| And it doesn't matter what I might have been | J |
| While above the scented pine gloom piling heights of golden glory | G |
| The sun god paints his canvas in the west | K |
| I can couch me deep in clover I can listen to the story | G |
| Of the lazy lapping water it is best | K |
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| While the trout leaps in the river and the blue grouse thrills the cover | C |
| And the frozen snow betrays the panther's track | L |
| And the robin greets the dayspring with the rapture of a lover | C |
| I am happy and I'll nevermore go back | L |
| For I know I'd just be longing for the little old log cabin | A |
| With the morning glory clinging to the door | M |
| Till I loathed the city places cursed the care on all the faces | N |
| Turned my back on lazar London evermore | M |
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| So send me far from Lombard Street and write me down a failure | C |
| Put a little in my purse and leave me free | G |
| Say He turned from Fortune's offering to follow up a pale lure | O |
| He is one of us no longer let him be | G |
| I am one of you no longer by the trails my feet have broken | A |
| The dizzy peaks I've scaled the camp fire's glow | P |
| By the lonely seas I've sailed in yea the final word is spoken | A |
| I am signed and sealed to nature Be it so | P |
Robert Service
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