Intolerance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJKLMLM NONOPQPR| I have no brief for gambling nay | A |
| The notion I express | B |
| That money earned 's the only way | A |
| To pay for happiness | C |
| With cards and dice I do not hold | D |
| By betting I've been bit | E |
| Conclusion to get honest gold | D |
| You've got to sweat for it | E |
| - | |
| Though there be evil in strong drink | F |
| It's brought me heaps of fun | G |
| And now with some reserve I think | F |
| My toping days are done | G |
| Though at teetotal cranks I laugh | H |
| Yet being sound and hale | I |
| I find the best of drinks to quaff | H |
| Is good old Adam's ale | I |
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| I do not like your moralist | J |
| Who with a righteous grin | K |
| Informs you o'er a pounding fist | J |
| Unchastity is sin | K |
| I don't believe it but I grant | L |
| By every human test | M |
| From parson pimp and maiden aunt | L |
| Morality is best | M |
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| Yet what a bore our lives would be | N |
| If we lived as we should | O |
| It's such a blessing to be free | N |
| And not be over good | O |
| I value virtues great and small | P |
| As I in life advance | Q |
| But O the greatest sin of all | P |
| I count INTOLERANCE | R |
Robert William Service
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