Belated Conscience Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDEFGFG HGHGCICI| To buy for school a copy book | A |
| I asked my Dad for two pence | B |
| He gave it with a gentle look | A |
| Although he had but few pence | B |
| 'Twas then I proved myself a crook | A |
| And came a moral cropper | C |
| I bought a penny copy book | A |
| And blued the other copper | C |
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| I spent it on a sausage roll | D |
| Gulped down with guilt suggestion | E |
| To the damnation of my soul | D |
| And awful indigestion | E |
| Poor Dad His job was hard to hold | F |
| His mouths to feed were many | G |
| Were he alive a millionfold | F |
| I'd pay him for his penny | G |
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| Now nigh the grave I think with grief | H |
| Though other sins are many | G |
| I am a liar and a thief | H |
| 'Cause once I stole a penny | G |
| Yet be he pious as a friar | C |
| It is my firm believing | I |
| That every man has been a liar | C |
| And most of us done thieving | I |
Robert William Service
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