Finality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BCC DDD EEE FFF AAA GGG HHH III JJJ| When I am dead I will not care | A |
| How future generations fare | A |
| For I will be so unaware | A |
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| Though fields their slain has carpeted | B |
| And seas be salt with tears they shed | C |
| Not one I'll waste for I'll be dead | C |
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| Though atom bombs in ashes lay | D |
| Their skyey cities of to day | D |
| With carrion lips I cannot pray | D |
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| Though ruin reigns and madness raves | E |
| And cowering men creep back in caves | E |
| I cannot help to dig their graves | E |
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| Though fools for knowledge delve too deep | F |
| And wake dark demons from their sleep | F |
| I will not have the eyes to weep | F |
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| I will not care I cannot care | A |
| For I will be no longer there | A |
| To share their sorrow and despair | A |
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| And nevermore my heart will bleed | G |
| When on my brain the blind worms feed | G |
| For I'll be dead dead DEAD indeed | G |
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| And when I rot and cease to be | H |
| It matters not a jot to me | H |
| What may be man's dark destiny | H |
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| Ah there you have the hell of it | I |
| As in the face of Fate I spit | I |
| I know she doesn't mind a bit | I |
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| A thousand millions clot this earth | J |
| And billions more await their birth | J |
| For what Ye gods enjoy your mirth | J |
Robert William Service
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