It Is Later Than You Think Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHIEDED JEJEKDLD EMEMNDND EOEOPDQD RSRSTDTTDDDLone amid the cafe's cheer | A |
Sad of heart am I to night | B |
Dolefully I drink my beer | A |
But no single line I write | B |
There's the wretched rent to pay | C |
Yet I glower at pen and ink | D |
Oh inspire me Muse I pray | C |
It is later than you think | D |
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Hello there's a pregnant phrase | E |
Bravo let me write it down | F |
Hold it with a hopeful gaze | E |
Gauge it with a fretful frown | F |
Tune it to my lyric lyre | G |
Ah upon starvation's brink | D |
How the words are dark and dire | G |
It is later than you think | D |
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Weigh them well Behold yon band | H |
Students drinking by the door | I |
Madly merry bock in hand | H |
Saucers stacked to mark their score | I |
Get you gone you jolly scamps | E |
Let your parting glasses clink | D |
Seek your long neglected lamps | E |
It is later than you think | D |
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Look again yon dainty blonde | J |
All allure and golden grace | E |
Oh so willing to respond | J |
Should you turn a smiling face | E |
Play your part poor pretty doll | K |
Feast and frolic pose and prink | D |
There's the Morgue to end it all | L |
And it's later than you think | D |
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Yon's a playwright mark his face | E |
Puffed and purple tense and tired | M |
Pasha like he holds his place | E |
Hated envied and admired | M |
How you gobble life my friend | N |
Wine and woman soft and pink | D |
Well each tether has its end | N |
Sir it's later than you think | D |
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See yon living scarecrow pass | E |
With a wild and wolfish stare | O |
At each empty absinthe glass | E |
As if he saw Heaven there | O |
Poor damned wretch to end your pain | P |
There is still the Greater Drink | D |
Yonder waits the sanguine Seine | Q |
It is later than you think | D |
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Lastly you who read aye you | R |
Who this very line may scan | S |
Think of all you planned to do | R |
Have you done the best you can | S |
See the tavern lights are low | T |
Black's the night and how you shrink | D |
God and is it time to go | T |
Ah the clock is always slow | T |
It is later than you think | D |
Sadly later than you think | D |
Far far later than you think | D |
Robert William Service
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