Brother Jim Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DBDBECEC FGFGHCHC IJIJKCKC| My brother Jim's a millionaire | A |
| while I have scarce a penny | B |
| His face is creased with lines of care | A |
| While my mug hasn't any | B |
| With inwardness his eyes are dim | C |
| While mine laugh out in glee | B |
| And though I ought to envy him | C |
| I think he envies me | B |
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| He has a chateau I a shack | D |
| And humble I should be | B |
| To see his stately Cadillac | D |
| Beside my jalopy | B |
| With chain of gold his belly's girt | E |
| His beard is barber trim | C |
| Yet bristle chinned with ragged shirt | E |
| I do not envy Jim | C |
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| My brother is a man of weight | F |
| For every civic plum | G |
| He grabs within one pie of state | F |
| While I am just a bum | G |
| Last Winter he was near to croak | H |
| With gastric ulcers grim | C |
| And no although I'm stony broke | H |
| I will not envy Jim | C |
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| He gets the work I get the fun | I |
| He has no tie for play | J |
| Whereas with paddle rod and gun | I |
| My life's a holiday | J |
| As over crabbed script he pores | K |
| I can the sky's blue rim | C |
| Oh boy While I have God's outdoors | K |
| I'll never envy Jim | C |
Robert William Service
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