Pragmatic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE EGEGHIHI JKJKLELE| When young I was an Atheist | A |
| Yea pompous as a pigeon | B |
| No opportunity I missed | C |
| To satirize religion | B |
| I sneered at Scripture scoffed at Faith | D |
| I blasphemed at believers | E |
| Said I There's nothing after Death | F |
| Your priests are just deceivers | E |
| - | |
| In middle age I was not so | E |
| Contemptuous and caustic | G |
| Thought I There's much I do not know | E |
| I'd better be agnostic | G |
| The hope of immortality | H |
| 'Tis foolish to be flouting | I |
| So in the end I came to be | H |
| A doubter of my doubting | I |
| - | |
| Now I am old with steps inclined | J |
| To hesitate and falter | K |
| I find I get such peace of mind | J |
| Just sitting by an altar | K |
| So Friends don't scorn the family pew | L |
| The preachments of the kirks | E |
| Religion may be false or true | L |
| But by the Lord it works | E |
Robert William Service
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