Escape Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAB CCBBCB DDEEDE EEFFEF GGHHGH IIJJIJ AAKKAKA| Tell me Tramp where I may go | A |
| To be free from human woe | A |
| Say where I may hope to find | B |
| Ease of heart and peace of mind | B |
| Is thee not some isle you know | A |
| Where I may leave Care behind | B |
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| So spoke one is sore distress | C |
| And I answered softly Yes | C |
| There's an isle so sweet and kind | B |
| So to clemency inclined | B |
| So serene in loveliness | C |
| That the blind may lead the blind | B |
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| Where there is no shade of fear | D |
| For the sun shines all the year | D |
| And there hangs on every tree | E |
| Fruit and food for you an me | E |
| With each dawn so crystal clear | D |
| How like heaven earth can be | E |
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| Where in mild and friendly clime | E |
| You will lose all count of time | E |
| See the seasons blend in one | F |
| Under sovereignty of sun | F |
| Day with day resolve in rhyme | E |
| Reveries and nothing done | F |
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| You will mock the ocean roar | G |
| Knowing you will evermore | G |
| Bide beside a lorn lagoon | H |
| Listen to the ripples croon | H |
| On the muteness of the shore | G |
| Silver shattered in the moon | H |
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| Come let's quit this sorry strife | I |
| Seek a sweeter saner life | I |
| Go so far so very far | J |
| It just seems another star | J |
| Go where joy and love are rife | I |
| Go where peace and plenty are | J |
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| But he answered Brother no | A |
| To your isle I'll never go | A |
| For the pity in my heart | K |
| Will not let me live apart | K |
| From God's world of want and woe | A |
| I will stay and play my part | K |
| Strive and suffer Be it so | A |
Robert William Service
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