Immortality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EEEEFGFG HBHIJGJGFull well I trow that when I die | A |
Down drops the curtain | B |
Another show is all my eye | A |
And Betty Martin | B |
I know the score and with a smile | C |
Of rueful rating | D |
I reckon I am not worth while | C |
Perpetuating | D |
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I hope that God if God there be | E |
Of love and glory | E |
Will let me off Eternity | E |
And end my story | E |
Will count me just a worn out bit | F |
Of human matter | G |
Who's done his job or bungled it | F |
More like the latter | G |
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I did not beg for mortal breath | H |
Plus hell or Heaven | B |
So let the last pay off be death | H |
And call it even | I |
To Nature I will pay my debt | J |
With stoic laughter | G |
But spare me God your awful threat | J |
Of Life Here after | G |
Robert William Service
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