My Rival Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH IIJJKKLL MMGG IINN BBBBOOPPP| If she met him or he met her | A |
| I knew that something must occur | A |
| For they were just like flint and steel | B |
| To strike the spark of woe and weal | B |
| Or like two splinters broken fine | C |
| In perfect fitness to combine | C |
| And so I ept them well apart | D |
| For she was precious to my heart | D |
| One time we all three met at church | E |
| I tried to give the lad the lurch | E |
| But heard him say How like a rose | F |
| is it your daughter I suppose | F |
| Why no said I My wife to be | G |
| And sic months gone wi' child is she | G |
| He looked astonished and distraught | H |
| My boy that's one for you I thought | H |
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| The wife asked What a handsome lad | I |
| A sailor Somehow she looked sad | I |
| And then his memory grew dim | J |
| For nevermore she mentioned him | J |
| And as I be nigh twice her age | K |
| I've always thought it mighty sage | K |
| Lest she might one day go astray | L |
| To keep her in the breeding way | L |
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| Oh did she ever dream of Jack | M |
| The boy who nevermore came back | M |
| And never will I heard that he | G |
| Was drowned in the China Sea | G |
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| I told her not lest she be sad | I |
| And me It's mean but I was glad | I |
| For if he's come into my life | N |
| He would have robbed me of my wife | N |
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| But when at night by her I lie | B |
| And in her sleep I hear her sigh | B |
| I have a doubt if I did well | B |
| In separating Jack and Nell | B |
| And though we have a brood of seven | O |
| Yet marriage may be made in Heaven | O |
| For Nell has cancer Doctors state | P |
| So maybe 'tis the way of fate | P |
| That in the end them two may mate | P |
Robert William Service
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