L'envoi - Ballads Of A Bohemian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDDB EEFGGHIIF JJKLLKMMK NNOPPOQQO RRSOOSTTS UUVW WWBVWe've finished up the filthy war | A |
We've won what we were fighting for | A |
Or have we I don't know | B |
But anyway I have my wish | C |
I'm back upon the old Boul' Mich' | C |
And how my heart's aglow | B |
Though in my coat's an empty sleeve | D |
Ah do not think I ever grieve | D |
The pension for it I believe | D |
Will keep me on the go | B |
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So I'll be free to write and write | E |
And give my soul to sheer delight | E |
Till joy is almost pain | F |
To stand aloof and watch the throng | G |
And worship youth and sing my song | G |
Of faith and hope again | H |
To seek for beauty everywhere | I |
To make each day a living prayer | I |
That life may not be vain | F |
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To sing of things that comfort me | J |
The joy in mother eyes the glee | J |
Of little ones at play | K |
The blessed gentleness of trees | L |
Of old men dreaming at their ease | L |
Soft afternoons away | K |
Of violets and swallows' wings | M |
Of wondrous ordinary things | M |
In words of every day | K |
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To rhyme of rich and rainy nights | N |
When like a legion leap the lights | N |
And take the town with gold | O |
Of taverns quaint where poets dream | P |
Of cafes gaudily agleam | P |
And vice that's overbold | O |
Of crystal shimmer silver sheen | Q |
Of soft and soothing nicotine | Q |
Of wine that's rich and old | O |
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Of gutters chimney tops and stars | R |
Of apple carts and motor cars | R |
The sordid and sublime | S |
Of wealth and misery that meet | O |
In every great and little street | O |
Of glory and of grime | S |
Of all the living tide that flows | T |
From princes down to puppet shows | T |
I'll make my humble rhyme | S |
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So if you like the sort of thing | U |
Of which I also like to sing | U |
Just give my stuff a look | V |
And if you don't no harm is done | W |
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In writing it I've had my fun | W |
Good luck to you and every one | W |
And so | B |
Here ends my book | V |
Robert William Service
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