Trixie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFCGCG HFIFJKGK LMLMNFNF| Dogs have a sense beyond our ken | A |
| At least my little Trixie had | B |
| Tail wagging when I laughed and when | A |
| I sighed eyes luminously sad | B |
| And if I planned to go away | C |
| She'd know oh days and days before | D |
| Aye dogs I think are sometimes fey | C |
| They seem to sense our fate in store | D |
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| Now take the case of old Tome Low | E |
| With flowers each week he'd call on me | F |
| Dear Trixie used to love him so | E |
| With joyous jump upon his knee | F |
| Yet when he wandered in one day | C |
| Her hair grew sudden stark with dread | G |
| She growled she howled she ran away | C |
| Well ten hours later Tom was dead | G |
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| Aye dogs hear sounds we cannot hear | H |
| And dogs see sights we cannot see | F |
| And that is why I took the fear | I |
| That one day she would glare at me | F |
| As if a Shape cowered on my bead | J |
| And with each hair on end she'd creep | K |
| Beneath the couch and whine with dread | G |
| And so I've had her put to sleep | K |
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| Now Trixie's gone the only one | L |
| Who loved me in my lonely life | M |
| And here I wait my race nigh run | L |
| My ill too grievous for the knife | M |
| My hand of ice she'll never lick | N |
| My heedless mask she'll never see | F |
| No heartbreak just a needle prick | N |
| Oh Doctor do the same for me | F |
Robert Service
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