Dyspeptic Clerk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJBKBK LHLHMAMA| I think I'll buy a little field | A |
| Though scant am I of pelf | B |
| And hold the hope that it may yield | A |
| A living for myself | B |
| For I have toiled ten thousand days | C |
| With ledger and with pen | D |
| And I am sick of city ways | C |
| And soured with city men | D |
| - | |
| So I will plant my little plot | E |
| With lettuce beans and peas | F |
| Potatoes too oh quite a lot | E |
| An pear and apple trees | F |
| My carrots will be coral pink | G |
| My turnips ivory | H |
| And I'll forget my pen and ink | G |
| And office slavery | H |
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| My hut shall have a single room | I |
| Monastically bare | J |
| A faggot fire for the winter gloom | I |
| A table and a chair | J |
| A Frugalist I call myself | B |
| My needs are oh so small | K |
| My luxury a classic shelf | B |
| Of poets on the wall | K |
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| Here as I dream how grey and cold | L |
| The City seems to me | H |
| Another world of green and gold | L |
| Incessantly I see | H |
| So I will fling my pen away | M |
| And learn a how to wield | A |
| A cashbook and a stool today | M |
| Soon soon a Little Field | A |
Robert William Service
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