I'm Scared Of It All Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIHI JBJBKLKL BMBMIIII NONOPBPB QIQIRIRI IOIOJIJJJI IISSI| I'm scared of it all God's truth so I am | A |
| It's too big and brutal for me | B |
| My nerve's on the raw and I don't give a damn | A |
| For all the hoorah that I see | B |
| I'm pinned between subway and overhead train | C |
| Where automobillies swoop down | D |
| Oh I want to go back to the timber again | E |
| I'm scared of the terrible town | D |
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| I want to go back to my lean ashen plains | F |
| My rivers that flash into foam | G |
| My ultimate valleys where solitude reigns | F |
| My trail from Fort Churchill to Nome | G |
| My forests packed full of mysterious gloom | H |
| My ice fields agrind and aglare | I |
| The city is deadfalled with danger and doom | H |
| I know that I'm safer up there | I |
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| I watch the wan faces that flash in the street | J |
| All kinds and all classes I see | B |
| Yet never a one in the million I meet | J |
| Has the smile of a comrade for me | B |
| Just jaded and panting like dogs in a pack | K |
| Just tensed and intent on the goal | L |
| O God but I'm lonesome I wish I was back | K |
| Up there in the land of the Pole | L |
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| I wish I was back on the Hunger Plateaus | B |
| And seeking the lost caribou | M |
| I wish I was up where the Coppermine flows | B |
| To the kick of my little canoe | M |
| I'd like to be far on some weariful shore | I |
| In the Land of the Blizzard and Bear | I |
| Oh I wish I was snug in the Arctic once more | I |
| For I know I am safer up there | I |
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| I prowl in the canyons of dismal unrest | N |
| I cringe I'm so weak and so small | O |
| I can't get my bearings I'm crushed and oppressed | N |
| With the haste and the waste of it all | O |
| The slaves and the madman the lust and the sweat | P |
| The fear in the faces I see | B |
| The getting the spending the fever the fret | P |
| It's too bleeding cruel for me | B |
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| I feel it's all wrong but I can't tell you why | Q |
| The palace the hovel next door | I |
| The insolent towers that sprawl to the sky | Q |
| The crush and the rush and the roar | I |
| I'm trapped like a fox and I fear for my pelt | R |
| I cower in the crash and the glare | I |
| Oh I want to be back in the avalanche belt | R |
| For I know that it's safer up there | I |
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| I'm scared of it all Oh afar I can hear | I |
| The voice of my solitudes call | O |
| We're nothing but brute with a little veneer | I |
| And nature is best after all | O |
| There's tumult and terror abroad in the street | J |
| There's menace and doom in the air | I |
| I've got to get back to my thousand mile beat | J |
| The trail where the cougar and silver tip meet | J |
| The snows and the camp fire with wolves at my feet | J |
| Good bye for it's safer up there | I |
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| To be forming good habits up there | I |
| To be starving on rabbits up there | I |
| In your hunger and woe | S |
| Though it's sixty below | S |
| Oh I know that it's safer up there | I |
Robert William Service
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