Tourist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDF GHGHIJIJ KLKLLLLL LMLMNONO| To Italy a random tour | A |
| I took to crown my education | B |
| Returning relatively poor | C |
| In purse yet rich in conversation | B |
| Old Rome put up a jolly show | D |
| But I am not a classic purist | E |
| Preferring to Mike Angelo | D |
| The slim stems of a lady tourist | F |
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| Venice they say was built on piles | G |
| I used to muse how did they do it | H |
| I tramped the narrow streets for miles | G |
| Religiously I gondoled through it | H |
| But though to shrines I bowed my head | I |
| My stomach's an aesthetic sinner | J |
| For in St Mark's I yawned and said | I |
| I hope we'll have lasagne for dinner | J |
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| Florence I'll say was mighty swell | K |
| With heaps of statues stark and lusty | L |
| I liked the Pitti Palace well | K |
| The Offusi I found to fusty | L |
| But though I did the best of it | L |
| My taste I fear is low and nasty | L |
| For in its bars I'd rather sit | L |
| Imbibing cups of sparkling Asti | L |
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| And so we go a tourist host | L |
| And pass art treasures little heeding | M |
| While memories that haunt us most | L |
| Are those of rich and copious feeding | M |
| In sooth I see no need to roam | N |
| Since all I want this side of Hades | O |
| I'll comfortably find at home | N |
| Just eating drinking and the Ladies | O |
Robert Service
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