Old Trouper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIHI JKJKLMLM LNLNOPQP BRBRSTST| I was Mojeska's leading man | A |
| And famous parts I used to play | B |
| But now I do the best I can | A |
| To earn my bread from day to day | B |
| Here in this Burg of Breaking Hears | C |
| Where one wins as a thousand fail | D |
| I play a score of scurvy parts | E |
| Till Time writes Finis to my tale | D |
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| My wife is dead my daughter wed | F |
| With heaps of trouble of their own | G |
| And though I hold aloft my head | F |
| I'm humble scared and all alone | G |
| To night I burn each photograph | H |
| Each record of my former fame | I |
| And oh how bitterly I laugh | H |
| And feed them to the hungry flame | I |
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| Behold how handsome I was then | J |
| What glowing eye what noble mien | K |
| I towered above my fellow men | J |
| And proudly strode the painted scene | K |
| Ah Vanity What fools are we | L |
| With empty ends and foolish aims | M |
| There now I fling with savage glee | L |
| My David Garrick to the flames | M |
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| Is this a dagger that I see | L |
| Oh how I used to love that speech | N |
| We were old fashioned hams maybe | L |
| Yet we Young Arrogance could teach | N |
| Out out brief candle There are gone | O |
| My Lear my Hamlet and MacBeth | P |
| And now by ashes cold and wan | Q |
| I wait my cue my prompter Death | P |
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| This life of ours is just a play | B |
| Its end is fashioned from the start | R |
| Fate writes each word we have to say | B |
| And puppet like we strut our part | R |
| Once I wore laurels on my brow | S |
| But now I wait a sorry clown | T |
| To make my furtive farewell bow | S |
| Haste Time Oh ring the Curtain down | T |
Robert William Service
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