Obesity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGC CCCCHHI| With belly like a poisoned pup | A |
| Said I 'I must give bacon up | A |
| And also I profanely fear | B |
| I must abandon bread and beer | B |
| That make for portliness they say | C |
| Yet of them copiously today | C |
| I ate with an increasingly sense | D |
| Of grievous corpulence | D |
| - | |
| I like a lot of thinks I like | E |
| Too bad that I must go on strike | E |
| Against pork sausages and mash | F |
| Spaghetti and fried corn beef hash | F |
| I deem he is a lucky soul | G |
| Who has no need of girth control | G |
| For in the old of age 'Il faut | C |
| Souffrir pour etre bean ' | - |
| - | |
| Yet let me not be unconsoled | C |
| So many greybeards I behold | C |
| Distinguished in affairs of state | C |
| In culture counted with the Great | C |
| Have tummies with a shameless bulge | H |
| And so I think I'll still indulge | H |
| In eats I like without a qualm | I |
| And damn my diaphragm ' | - |
Robert William Service
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