Book Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IAIAJKJK LMLMNBNB OKOKPQPB| I keep collecting books I know | A |
| I'll never never read | B |
| My wife and daughter tell me so | A |
| And yet I never head | B |
| Please make me says some wistful tome | C |
| A wee bit of yourself | D |
| And so I take my treasure home | C |
| And tuck it in a shelf | D |
| - | |
| And now my very shelves complain | E |
| They jam and over spill | F |
| They say Why don't you ease our strain | E |
| some day I say I will | F |
| So book by book they plead and sigh | G |
| I pick and dip and scan | H |
| Then put them back distrest that I | G |
| Am such a busy man | H |
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| Now there's my Boswell and my Sterne | I |
| my Gibbon and Defoe | A |
| To savour Swift I'll never learn | I |
| Montaigne I may not know | A |
| On Bacon I will never sup | J |
| For Shakespeare I've no time | K |
| Because I'm busy making up | J |
| These jingly bits of rhyme | K |
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| Chekov is caviare to me | L |
| While Stendhal makes me snore | M |
| Poor Proust is not my cup of tea | L |
| And Balzac is a bore | M |
| I have their books I love their names | N |
| And yet alas they head | B |
| With Lawrence Joyce and Henry James | N |
| My Roster of Unread | B |
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| I think it would be very well | O |
| If I commit a crime | K |
| And get put in a prison cell | O |
| And not allowed to rhyme | K |
| Yet given all these worthy books | P |
| According to my need | Q |
| I now caress with loving looks | P |
| But never never read | B |
Robert William Service
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