Prelude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD CECEFGFG HCHCBIBI| To smite Apollo's lyre I am unable | A |
| Of loveliness alas I cannot sing | B |
| My lot it i across the tavern table | A |
| To start a chorus to the strumming string | B |
| I have no gift to touch your heart to pity | C |
| I have no power to ring the note of pain | D |
| All I can do is pipe a pot house ditty | C |
| Or roar a Rabelaisian refrain | D |
| - | |
| Behold yon minstrel of the empty belly | C |
| Who seeks to please the bored and waiting throng | E |
| Outside the Opera with ukulele | C |
| And raucous strains of syncopated song | E |
| His rag time mocks their eager hearts a hunger | F |
| For golden voices melody divine | G |
| Yet throw a penny to the ballad monger | F |
| Yet listen idly to this song of mine | G |
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| For with a humble heart I clank rhyme's fetters | H |
| And bare my buttocks to the critic knout | C |
| A graceless hobo in the Land of Letters | H |
| Piping my ditties of the down and out | C |
| A bar room bard so if a coin you're flinging | B |
| Pay me a pot and let me dream and booze | I |
| To stars of scorn my dour defiance ringing | B |
| With battered banjo and a strumpet Muse | I |
Robert William Service
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