Bookshelf Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEDFF BGFGHH IIJJKEKC BLBLMM NGNGFF| I like to think that when I fall | A |
| A rain drop in Death's shoreless sea | B |
| This shelf of books along the wall | A |
| Beside my bed will mourn for me | B |
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| Regard it Aye my taste is queer | C |
| Some of my bards you may disdain | D |
| Shakespeare and Milton are not here | E |
| Shelly and Keats you seek in vain | D |
| Wordsworth Tennyson Browning too | F |
| Remarkably are not in view | F |
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| Who are they Omar first you see | B |
| With Vine and Rose and Nightingale | G |
| Voicing my pet philosphy | F |
| Of Wine and Song Then Reading Gaol | G |
| Where Fate a gruesome pattern makes | H |
| And dawn light shudders as it wakes | H |
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| The Ancient Mariner is next | I |
| With eerie and terrific text | I |
| The Burns with pawky human touch | J |
| Poor devil I have loved him much | J |
| And now a gay quartette behold | K |
| Bret Harte and Eugene Field are here | E |
| And Henly chanting brave and bold | K |
| And Chesteron in praise of Beer | C |
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| Lastly come valiant Singers three | B |
| To whom this strident Day belongs | L |
| Kipling to whom I bow the knee | B |
| Masefield with rugged sailor songs | L |
| And to my lyric troupe I add | M |
| With greatful heart The Shropshire Lad | M |
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| Behold my minstrels just eleven | N |
| For half my life I've loved them well | G |
| And though I have no hope of Heaven | N |
| And more than Highland fear of Hell | G |
| May I be damned if on this shelf | F |
| ye find a rhyme I made myself | F |
Robert William Service
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