Frustration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDF GHGI JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ| Gazing to gold seraph wing | A |
| With wistful wonder in my eyes | B |
| A blue behinded ape I swing | A |
| Upon the palms of Paradise | C |
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| A parakeet of gaudy hue | D |
| Upon a flame tree smugly rocks | E |
| Oh we're a precious pair we two | D |
| I gibber while the parrot squawks | F |
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| If I had but your wings I sigh | G |
| How ardently would I aspire | H |
| To soar celestially high | G |
| And mingle with yon angel choir | I |
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| His beady eye is bitter hard | J |
| Right mockingly he squints at me | K |
| As critic might review a bard | J |
| His scorn is withering to see | K |
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| And as I beat my brest and howl | L |
| Poor fool he shrills my bliss to wreck | M |
| So so I steal behind that fowl | L |
| And grab his claw and screw his neck | M |
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| And swift his scarlet wings I tear | N |
| Seeking to soar with hope divine | O |
| I frantically beat the air | N |
| And crash to earth and snap my spine | O |
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| Yet as I lie with shaken breaths | P |
| Of pain I watch my seraph throng | Q |
| Oh I would die a dozen deaths | P |
| Could I but sing one deathless song | Q |
Robert William Service
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