Externalism Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD DEDEFGFG DDDDHDHD IGIGJKJK DGDGLMLM NONODGPG ADADQGQG| The Greatest Writer of to day | A |
| With Maupassant I almost set him | B |
| Said to me in a weary way | A |
| The last occasion that I met him | B |
| Old chap this world is more and more | C |
| Becoming bourgeois blas eacute blousy | D |
| Thank God I've lived so long before | C |
| It got so definitely lousy | D |
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| Said I Old chap I don't agree | D |
| Why should one so dispraise the present | E |
| For gainful guys like you and me | D |
| It still can be extremely pleasant | E |
| Have we not Women Wine and Song | F |
| A gleeful trio to my thinking | G |
| So blithely we can get along | F |
| With laughing loving eating drinking | G |
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| Said he Dear Boy it may be so | D |
| But I'm fed up with war and worry | D |
| I would escape this world of woe | D |
| Of wrath and wrong of hate and hurry | D |
| I fain would gain the peace of mind | H |
| Of Lamas on Thibetan highlands | D |
| Or maybe sanctuary find | H |
| With beach combers on coral islands | D |
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| Said I Dear Boy don't go so far | I |
| Just live a life of simple being | G |
| Forgetting all the ills that are | I |
| Be satisfied with hearing seeing | G |
| The sense of smell and taste and touch | J |
| Can bring you bliss in ample measure | K |
| If only you don't think too much | J |
| Your programme can be packed with pleasure | K |
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| But do not try to probe below | D |
| This fairy film of Nature's screening | G |
| Look on it as a surface show | D |
| Without a purpose of a meaning | G |
| Take no account of social strife | L |
| And dread no coming cataclysm | M |
| Let your philosophy of life | L |
| Be what I call EXTERNALISM | M |
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| The moon shines down with borrowed light | N |
| So savants say I do not doubt it | O |
| Suffice its silver trance my sight | N |
| That's all I want to know about it | O |
| A fig for science 'how' and 'why' | D |
| Distract me in my happy dreaming | G |
| Through line and form and colour I | P |
| Am all content with outward seeming | G |
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| The Greatest Writer of to day | A |
| I would have loved to call him Willie | D |
| looked wry at me and went his way | A |
| I think he thought me rather silly | D |
| Maybe I am but I insist | Q |
| My point of view will take some beating | G |
| Don't mock this old Externalist | Q |
| The pudding's proof is in the eating | G |
Robert William Service
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