My Cancer Cure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBB CCDEEE FFFGGG HIHBBB JJKLLL BBB| A year to live the Doctor said | A |
| There is no cure and shook his head | A |
| Ah me I felt as good as dead | A |
| Yet quite resigned to fate was I | B |
| Thinking Well since I have to die | B |
| 'Twill be beneath the open sky | B |
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| And so I sought a wildsome wood | C |
| Wherein a lonely cabin stood | C |
| And doomed myself to solitude | D |
| And there was no one I would see | E |
| Each morn a farmer brought to me | E |
| My food and hung it on a tree | E |
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| Six eggs he brought and milk a quart | F |
| Enough for wretches of my sort | F |
| Whose life is fated to be short | F |
| At night I laid me on the round | G |
| In robe of buffalo wrapped round | G |
| 'Twas strange that I should sleep so sound | G |
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| The farmer man I seldom saw | H |
| I pierced my eggs and sucked them raw | I |
| Sweet mil refreshed my ravaged maw | H |
| So slowly days and weeks went by | B |
| And always I would wonder why | B |
| I did not die I did not die | B |
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| Thus brooding on my grievous lot | J |
| The world of men I fast forgot | J |
| And in the wildwood friends I sought | K |
| The brook bright melodies would sing | L |
| The groves with feathered rapture ring | L |
| And bring me strange sweet comforting | L |
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| Then all at once I knew that I | B |
| Miraculously would not die | B |
| When doctors fail let Nature try | B |
Robert William Service
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