A Rolling Stone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGAGA EHEHIJKJ LMLMNOPO QRSRTUVV WVAVVKVK JQJQXAYA VVJVADZZA2D AAAAAKAK| There's sunshine in the heart of me | A |
| My blood sings in the breeze | B |
| The mountains are a part of me | A |
| I'm fellow to the trees | B |
| My golden youth I'm squandering | C |
| Sun libertine am I | D |
| A wandering a wandering | C |
| Until the day I die | D |
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| I was once I declare a Stone Age man | E |
| And I roomed in the cool of a cave | F |
| I have known I will swear in a new life span | E |
| The fret and the sweat of a slave | F |
| For far over all that folks hold worth | G |
| There lives and there leaps in me | A |
| A love of the lowly things of earth | G |
| And a passion to be free | A |
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| To pitch my tent with no prosy plan | E |
| To range and to change at will | H |
| To mock at the mastership of man | E |
| To seek Adventure's thrill | H |
| Carefree to be as a bird that sings | I |
| To go my own sweet way | J |
| To reck not at all what may befall | K |
| But to live and to love each day | J |
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| To make my body a temple pure | L |
| Wherein I dwell serene | M |
| To care for the things that shall endure | L |
| The simple sweet and clean | M |
| To oust out envy and hate and rage | N |
| To breathe with no alarm | O |
| For Nature shall be my anchorage | P |
| And none shall do me harm | O |
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| To shun all lures that debauch the soul | Q |
| The orgied rites of the rich | R |
| To eat my crust as a rover must | S |
| With the rough neck down in the ditch | R |
| To trudge by his side whate'er betide | T |
| To share his fire at night | U |
| To call him friend to the long trail end | V |
| And to read his heart aright | V |
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| To scorn all strife and to view all life | W |
| With the curious eyes of a child | V |
| From the plangent sea to the prairie | A |
| From the slum to the heart of the Wild | V |
| From the red rimmed star to the speck of sand | V |
| From the vast to the greatly small | K |
| For I know that the whole for good is planned | V |
| And I want to see it all | K |
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| To see it all the wide world way | J |
| From the fig leaf belt to the Pole | Q |
| With never a one to say me nay | J |
| And none to cramp my soul | Q |
| In belly pinch I will pay the price | X |
| But God let me be free | A |
| For once I know in the long ago | Y |
| They made a slave of me | A |
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| In a flannel shirt from earth's clean dirt | V |
| Here pal is my calloused hand | V |
| Oh I love each day as a rover may | J |
| Nor seek to understand | V |
| To enjoy is good enough for me | A |
| The gipsy of God am I | D |
| Then here's a hail to each flaring dawn | Z |
| And here's a cheer to the night that's gone | Z |
| And may I go a roaming on | A2 |
| Until the day I die | D |
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| Then every star shall sing to me | A |
| Its song of liberty | A |
| And every morn shall bring to me | A |
| Its mandate to be free | A |
| In every throbbing vein of me | A |
| I'll feel the vast Earth call | K |
| O body heart and brain of me | A |
| Praise Him who made it all | K |
Robert William Service
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