Causation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE FFGGCCHH IIJJCIKL MMIIIICC CCNNOONN PPNNCCII| Said darling daughter unto me | A |
| oh Dad how funny it would be | A |
| If you had gone to Mexico | B |
| A score or so of years ago | B |
| Had not some whimsey changed your plan | C |
| I might have been a Mexican | D |
| With lissome form and raven hair | E |
| Instead of being fat and fair | E |
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| Or if you'd sailed the Southern Seas | F |
| And mated with a Japanese | F |
| I might have been a squatty girl | G |
| With never golden locks to curl | G |
| Who flirted with a painted fan | C |
| And tinkled on a samisan | C |
| And maybe slept upon a mat | H |
| I'm very glad I don't do that | H |
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| When I consider the romance | I |
| Of all your youth of change and chance | I |
| I might I fancy just as well | J |
| Have bloomed a bold Tahitian belle | J |
| Or have been born but there ah no | C |
| I draw the line and Esquimeaux | I |
| It scares me stiff to think of what | K |
| I might have been thank God I'm not | L |
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| Said I my dear don't be absurd | M |
| Since everything that has occurred | M |
| Through seeming fickle in your eyes | I |
| Could not a jot be otherwise | I |
| For in this casual cosmic biz | I |
| The world can be but what it is | I |
| And nobody can dare deny | C |
| Part of this world is you and I | C |
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| Or call it fate or destiny | C |
| No other issue could there be | C |
| Though half the world I've wandered through | N |
| Cause and effect have linked us two | N |
| Aye all the aeons of the past | O |
| Conspired to bring us here at last | O |
| And all I ever chanced to do | N |
| Inevitably led to you | N |
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| To you to make you what you are | P |
| A maiden in a Morris car | P |
| IN Harris tweeds an airedale too | N |
| But Anglo Saxon through and through | N |
| And all the good and ill I've done | C |
| In every land beneath the sun | C |
| Magnificently led to this | I |
| A country cottage and your kiss | I |
Robert William Service
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