L'envoi - Ballads Of A Bohemian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDDB EEFGGHIIF JJKLLKMMK NNOPPOQQO RRSOOSTTS UUVW WWBV

We've finished up the filthy warA
We've won what we were fighting forA
Or have we I don't knowB
But anyway I have my wishC
I'm back upon the old Boul' Mich'C
And how my heart's aglowB
Though in my coat's an empty sleeveD
Ah do not think I ever grieveD
The pension for it I believeD
Will keep me on the goB
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So I'll be free to write and writeE
And give my soul to sheer delightE
Till joy is almost painF
To stand aloof and watch the throngG
And worship youth and sing my songG
Of faith and hope againH
To seek for beauty everywhereI
To make each day a living prayerI
That life may not be vainF
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To sing of things that comfort meJ
The joy in mother eyes the gleeJ
Of little ones at playK
The blessed gentleness of treesL
Of old men dreaming at their easeL
Soft afternoons awayK
Of violets and swallows' wingsM
Of wondrous ordinary thingsM
In words of every dayK
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To rhyme of rich and rainy nightsN
When like a legion leap the lightsN
And take the town with goldO
Of taverns quaint where poets dreamP
Of cafes gaudily agleamP
And vice that's overboldO
Of crystal shimmer silver sheenQ
Of soft and soothing nicotineQ
Of wine that's rich and oldO
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Of gutters chimney tops and starsR
Of apple carts and motor carsR
The sordid and sublimeS
Of wealth and misery that meetO
In every great and little streetO
Of glory and of grimeS
Of all the living tide that flowsT
From princes down to puppet showsT
I'll make my humble rhymeS
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So if you like the sort of thingU
Of which I also like to singU
Just give my stuff a lookV
And if you don't no harm is doneW
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In writing it I've had my funW
Good luck to you and every oneW
And soB
Here ends my bookV

Robert William Service



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