God's Skallywags Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBCDEDE FGFGHIHJ KLKLMJMJ NONOPQPQ| A | |
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| The God of Scribes looked down and saw | B |
| The bitter band of seven | C |
| Who had outraged his holy law | B |
| And lost their hope of Heaven | C |
| Came Villon petty thief and pimp | D |
| And obscene Baudelaire | E |
| And Byron with his letcher limp | D |
| And Poe with starry stare | E |
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| And Wilde who lived his hell on earth | F |
| And Burns the baudy bard | G |
| And Francis Thompson from his birth | F |
| Malevolently starred | G |
| As like a line of livid ghosts | H |
| They started to paradise | I |
| The galaxy of Heaven's hosts | H |
| Looked down in soft surmise | J |
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| Said God You bastards of my love | K |
| You are my chosen sons | L |
| Come I will set you high above | K |
| These merely holy ones | L |
| Your sins you've paid in gall and grief | M |
| So to these radiant skies | J |
| Seducer drunkard dopester thief | M |
| Immortally arise | J |
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| I am your Father fond and just | N |
| And all your folly see | O |
| Your beastiality and lust | N |
| I also know in me | O |
| You did the task I gave to you | P |
| Arise and sit beside | Q |
| My Son the best beloved who | P |
| Was also crucified | Q |
Robert William Service
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