Oh, It Is Good Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH ICIC| Oh it is good to drink and sup | A |
| And then beside the kindly fire | B |
| To smoke and heap the faggots up | A |
| And rest and dream to heart's desire | B |
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| Oh it is good to ride and run | C |
| To roam the greenwood wild and free | D |
| To hunt to idle in the sun | C |
| To leap into the laughing sea | D |
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| Oh it is good with hand and brain | E |
| To gladly till the chosen soil | F |
| And after honest sweat and strain | E |
| To see the harvest of one's toil | F |
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| Oh it is good afar to roam | G |
| And seek adventure in strange lands | H |
| Yet oh so good the coming home | G |
| The velvet love of little hands | H |
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| So much is good We thank Thee God | I |
| For all the tokens Thou hast given | C |
| That here on earth our feet have trod | I |
| Thy little shining trails of Heaven | C |
Robert William Service
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