Fear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFE GHIJKLKL MEMENONO PJPJQRQQQR| I know how father's strap would feel | A |
| If ever I were caught | B |
| So mother's jam I did not steal | A |
| Though theft was in my thought | C |
| Then turned fourteen and full of pitch | D |
| Of love I was afraid | E |
| And did not dare to dally with | F |
| Our pretty parlour maid | E |
| - | |
| And so it is and always was | G |
| The path of rectitude | H |
| I've followed all my life because | I |
| The Parson said I should | J |
| The dread of hell fire held me straight | K |
| When I was wont to stray | L |
| And though my guts I often hate | K |
| I walk the narrow way | L |
| - | |
| I might have been a bandit or | M |
| A Casanovish blade | E |
| But always I have prospered for | M |
| I've always been afraid | E |
| Ay fear's behind the best of us | N |
| And schools us for success | O |
| And that is why I'm virtuous | N |
| And happy more or less | O |
| - | |
| So let me hail that mighty power | P |
| That goads me to be good | J |
| And makes me cannily to cower | P |
| Amid foolhardihood | J |
| Though I be criminal in gain | Q |
| My virtue a veneer | R |
| I thank the God who keeps me sane | Q |
| And shields me from distress and pain | Q |
| And thrifts me on to golden gain | Q |
| Almighty Fear | R |
Robert William Service
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