Frustration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDF GHGI JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQGazing 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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