Portrait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGAGA HIHIBJBK LMLMNONO| Because life's passing show | A |
| Is little to his mind | B |
| There is a man I know | A |
| Indrawn from human kind | B |
| His dearest friends are books | C |
| Yet oh how glad he talks | D |
| To birds and trees and brooks | C |
| On lonely walks | D |
| He takes the same still way | E |
| By grove and hill and sea | F |
| He lives that each new day | E |
| May like the last one be | F |
| He hates all kinds of change | G |
| His step is sure and slow | A |
| Though life has little range | G |
| He loves it so | A |
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| He makes it his one aim | H |
| His pleasure to repeat | I |
| To always do the same | H |
| Since sameness is so sweet | I |
| In simple things to find | B |
| The dearest to his mood | J |
| His true life in his mind | B |
| Is oh so good | K |
| - | |
| Please leave him to his dream | L |
| This old unweary man | M |
| Who shuns the busy stream | L |
| And has outlived his span | M |
| Just leave him on his shelf | N |
| To watch the world go by | O |
| Because he is myself | N |
| Yea such be I | O |
Robert William Service
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