My Hour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBBBB CDCDABAB CBCBAEAE BFBGABAB BHBHBIBI BJBJKLKK BMBMNOPO BQBQBBBB NDNDARAR ASASKKKK| Day after day behold me plying | A |
| My pen within an office drear | B |
| The dullest dog till homeward hieing | A |
| Then lo I reign a king of cheer | B |
| A throne have I of padded leather | B |
| A little court of kiddies three | B |
| A wife who smiles whate'er the weather | B |
| A feast of muffins jam and tea | B |
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| The table cleared a romping battle | C |
| A fairy tale a Children bed | D |
| A kiss a hug a hush of prattle | C |
| God save each little drowsy head | D |
| A cozy chat with wife a sewing | A |
| A silver lining clouds that low'r | B |
| Then she too goes and with her going | A |
| I come again into my Hour | B |
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| I poke the fire I snugly settle | C |
| My pipe I prime with proper care | B |
| The water's purring in the kettle | C |
| Rum lemon sugar all are there | B |
| And now the honest grog is steaming | A |
| And now the trusty briar's aglow | E |
| Alas in smoking drinking dreaming | A |
| How sadly swift the moments go | E |
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| Oh golden hour 'twixt love and duty | B |
| All others I to others give | F |
| But you are mine to yield to Beauty | B |
| To glean Romance to greatly live | G |
| For in my easy chair reclining | A |
| I feel the sting of ocean spray | B |
| And yonder wondrously are shining | A |
| The Magic Isles of Far Away | B |
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| Beyond the comber's crashing thunder | B |
| Strange beaches flash into my ken | H |
| On jetties heaped head high with plunder | B |
| I dance and dice with sailor men | H |
| Strange stars swarm down to burn above me | B |
| Strange shadows haunt strange voices greet | I |
| Strange women lure and laugh and love me | B |
| And fling their bastards at my feet | I |
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| Oh I would wish the wide world over | B |
| In ports of passion and unrest | J |
| To drink and drain a tarry rover | B |
| With dragons tattooed on my chest | J |
| With haunted eyes that hold red glories | K |
| Of foaming seas and crashing shores | L |
| With lips that tell the strangest stories | K |
| Of sunken ships and gold moidores | K |
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| Till sick of storm and strife and slaughter | B |
| Some ghostly night when hides the moon | M |
| I slip into the milk warm water | B |
| And softly swim the stale lagoon | M |
| Then through some jungle python haunted | N |
| Or plumed morass or woodland wild | O |
| I win my way with heart undaunted | P |
| And all the wonder of a child | O |
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| The pathless plains shall swoon around me | B |
| The forests frown the floods appall | Q |
| The mountains tiptoe to confound me | B |
| The rivers roar to speed my fall | Q |
| Wild dooms shall daunt and dawns be gory | B |
| And Death shall sit beside my knee | B |
| Till after terror torment glory | B |
| I win again the sea the sea | B |
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| Oh anguish sweet Oh triumph splendid | N |
| Oh dreams adieu my pipe is dead | D |
| My glass is dry my Hour is ended | N |
| It's time indeed I stole to bed | D |
| How peacefully the house is sleeping | A |
| Ah why should I strange fortunes plan | R |
| To guard the dear ones in my keeping | A |
| That's task enough for any man | R |
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| So through dim seas I'll ne'er go spoiling | A |
| The red Tortugas never roam | S |
| Please God I'll keep the pot a boiling | A |
| And make at least a happy home | S |
| My children's path shall gleam with roses | K |
| Their grace abound their joy increase | K |
| And so my Hour divinely closes | K |
| With tender thoughts of praise and peace | K |
Robert William Service
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