Birds Of A Feather Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEGG HIHIFF JKJKLL| Of bosom friends I've had but seven | A |
| Despite my years are ripe | B |
| I hope they're now enjoying Heaven | A |
| Although they're not the type | B |
| Nor candidly no more am I | C |
| Though overdue to die | C |
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| For looking back I see that they | D |
| Were weak and wasteful men | E |
| They loved a sultry jest alway | F |
| And women now and then | E |
| They smoked and gambled soused and swore | G |
| Yet no one was a bore | G |
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| 'Tis strange I took to lads like these | H |
| On whom the good should frown | I |
| Yet all with poetry would please | H |
| To wash his wassail down | I |
| Their temples touched the starry way | F |
| But O what feet of clay | F |
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| Well all are dust of fame bereft | J |
| They bore a cruel cross | K |
| And I the canny one am left | J |
| Yet as I grieve their loss | K |
| I deem because they loved me well | L |
| They'll welcome me in Hell | L |
Robert William Service
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