Four-foot Shelf Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE F G HIJI KLKLMNMN'Come see ' said he 'my four foot shelf | A |
A forty volume row | B |
And every one I wrote myself | A |
But that of course you know ' | C |
I stared I searched a memory dim | D |
For though an author too | E |
Somehow I'd never heard of him | D |
None of his books I knew | E |
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Said I 'I'd like to borrow one | F |
Fond memories to recall ' | - |
Said he 'I'll gladly give you some | G |
And autograph them all ' | - |
And so a dozen books he brought | H |
And signed tome after tome | I |
Of course I thanked him quite a lot | J |
And took them home | I |
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So now I have to read his work | K |
Though dry as dust it be | L |
No portion of it may I shirk | K |
Lest he should question me | L |
This tale is true although it looks | M |
To me a bloody shame | N |
A guy could father forty books | M |
yet no one know his name | N |
Robert William Service
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