Jim Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBABA CDCDCACA EFEFGAGA FBHBIAIA JCJCKALA MNMNNANA| Never knew Jim did you Our boy Jim | A |
| Bless you there was the likely lad | B |
| Supple and straight and long of limb | A |
| Clean as a whistle and just as glad | B |
| Always laughing wasn't he dad | B |
| Joy pure joy to the heart of him | A |
| And oh but the soothering ways he had | B |
| Jim our Jim | A |
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| But I see him best as a tiny tot | C |
| A bonny babe though it's me that speaks | D |
| Laughing there in his little cot | C |
| With his sunny hair and his apple cheeks | D |
| And my but the blue blue eyes he'd got | C |
| And just where his wee mouth dimpled dim | A |
| Such a fairy mark like a beauty spot | C |
| That was Jim | A |
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| Oh the war the war How my eyes were wet | E |
| But he says Don't be sorrowing mother dear | F |
| You never knew me to fail you yet | E |
| And I'll be back in a year a year | F |
| 'Twas at Mons he fell in the first attack | G |
| For so they said and their eyes were dim | A |
| But I laughed in their faces He'll come back | G |
| Will my Jim | A |
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| Now we'd been wedded for twenty year | F |
| And Jim was the only one we'd had | B |
| So when I whispered in father's ear | H |
| He wouldn't believe me would you dad | B |
| There I must hurry hear him cry | I |
| My new little baby See that's him | A |
| What are we going to call him Why | I |
| Jim just Jim | A |
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| Jim For look at him laughing there | J |
| In the same old way in his tiny cot | C |
| With his rosy cheeks and his sunny hair | J |
| And look just look his beauty spot | C |
| In the selfsame place Oh I can't explain | K |
| And of course you think it's a mother's whim | A |
| But I know I know it's my boy again | L |
| Same wee Jim | A |
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| Just come back as he said he would | M |
| Come with his love and his heart of glee | N |
| Oh I cried and I cried but the Lord was good | M |
| From the shadow of Death he set Jim free | N |
| So I'll have him all over again you see | N |
| Can you wonder my mother heart's a brim | A |
| Oh how happy we're going to be | N |
| Aren't we Jim | A |
Robert William Service
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