The Undying Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEFFGG HHBBII JJBBKK LLMMNN| She was so wonderful I wondered | A |
| If wedding me she had not blundered | A |
| She was so pure so high above me | B |
| I marvelled how she came to love me | B |
| Or did she Well in her own fashion | C |
| Affection pity never passion | C |
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| I knew I was not worth her love | D |
| Yet oh how wistfully I strove | E |
| To be her equal in some way | F |
| She knew I tried and I would pray | F |
| Some day she'd hold her head in pride | G |
| And stand with praising by my side | G |
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| A Weakling I she made me strong | H |
| My finest thoughts to her belong | H |
| Through twenty years she mothered me | B |
| And then one day she smothered me | B |
| With kisses saying wild with joy | I |
| Soon we'll be three let's hope a boy | I |
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| Too old to bear a child they said | J |
| Well they were right for both are dead | J |
| Ah no not dead she is with me | B |
| And by my side she'll ever be | B |
| Her spirit lingers half divine | K |
| All good I do is hers not mine | K |
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| God by my works O let me strive | L |
| To keep her gentleness alive | L |
| Let in my heart her spirit glow | M |
| And by my thoughts for others show | M |
| She is not dead she'll never die | N |
| While love for humankind have I | N |
Robert Service
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