Reverence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBCDEED FGFGHIHI JKLKDMMD NHNHOPPO HQHQLRRL HHH| A | |
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| I saw the Greatest Man on Earth | B |
| Aye saw him with my proper eyes | C |
| A loin cloth spanned his proper girth | B |
| But he was naked otherwise | C |
| Excepting for his grey sombrero | D |
| And when his domelike head he bared | E |
| With reverence I stared and stared | E |
| As mummified as any Pharaoh | D |
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| He leaned upon a little cane | F |
| A big cigar was in his mouth | G |
| Through spectacles of yellow stain | F |
| He gazed and gazed toward the South | G |
| And then he dived into the sea | H |
| As if to Corsica to swim | I |
| His side stroke was so strong and free | H |
| I could not help but envy him | I |
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| A fitter man than I I said | J |
| Although his age is more than mine | K |
| And I was strangely comforted | L |
| To see him battle in the brine | K |
| Thought I We have no cause for sorrow | D |
| For one so dynamic to day | M |
| Will gird him for the future fray | M |
| And lead us lion like to morrow | D |
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| The Greatest Man in all the world | N |
| Lay lazing like you or me | H |
| Within a flimsy bathrobe curled | N |
| Upon a mattress by the sea | H |
| He reached to pat a tou tou's nose | O |
| And scratched his torso now and then | P |
| And scribbled with a fountain pen | P |
| What I assumed was jewelled prose | O |
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| And then methought he looked at me | H |
| And hailed me with a gesture grand | Q |
| His fingers made the letter V | H |
| So I too went to raise my hand | Q |
| When nigh to me the barman glided | L |
| With liquid gold and then I knew | R |
| He merely called for cock tails two | R |
| And so abjectly I subsided | L |
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| Yet I have had my moment's glory | H |
| A squatting nigh that Mighty Tory | H |
| Proud Hero of our Island Story | H |
Robert William Service
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