My Future Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC DBEBDFEG AHAHIJIJ KBKBLBLB| Let's make him a sailor said Father | A |
| And he will adventure the sea | B |
| A soldier said Mother is rather | A |
| What I would prefer him to be | B |
| A lawyer said Father would please me | B |
| For then he could draw up my will | C |
| A doctor said Mother would ease me | B |
| Maybe he could give me a pill | C |
| - | |
| Said Father Lt's make him a curate | D |
| A Bishop in gaiters to be | B |
| Said Mother I couldn't endure it | E |
| To have Willie preaching to me | B |
| Said Father Let him be a poet | D |
| So often he's gathering wool | F |
| Said Mother with temper Oh stow it | E |
| You know it a poet's a fool | G |
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| Said Farther Your son is a duffer | A |
| A stupid and mischievous elf | H |
| Said Mother who's rather a huffer | A |
| That's right he takes after yourself | H |
| Controlling parental emotion | I |
| They turned to me seeking a cue | J |
| And sudden conceived the bright notion | I |
| To ask what I wanted to do | J |
| - | |
| Said I my ambition is modest | K |
| A clown in a circus I'd be | B |
| And turn somersaults in the sawdust | K |
| With audience laughing at me | B |
| Poor parents they're dead and decaying | L |
| But I am a clown as you see | B |
| And though in no circus I'm playing | L |
| How people are laughing at me | B |
Robert William Service
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