Rhyme-smith Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD CECFGHGG IJIJKKCC FCFCLLLM NNOO| Oh I was born a lyric babe | A |
| That last word is a bore | B |
| It's only rhyme is astrolabe | A |
| Whose meaning I ignore | B |
| From cradlehood I lisped in numbers | C |
| Made jingles even in my slumbers | C |
| Said Ma He'll be a bard I know it | D |
| Said Pa let's hoe he will outgrow it | D |
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| Alas I never did and so | C |
| A dreamer and a drone was I | E |
| Who persevered in want and woe | C |
| His misery to versify | F |
| Yea I was doomed to be a failure | G |
| Old Browning rhymes that last with pale lure | H |
| And even starving in the gutter | G |
| My macaronics I would utter | G |
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| Then in a poor cheap book I crammed | I |
| And to the public maw I tossed | J |
| My bitter Dirges of the Damned | I |
| My Lyrics of the Lost | J |
| Let carping critic flay and flout | K |
| My Ditties of the Down and Out | K |
| There now said I I've done with verse | C |
| My love my weakness and my curse | C |
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| Then lo As I would fain believe | F |
| Before they crown the fates would shame us | C |
| I went to sleep one bitter eve | F |
| And woke to find that I was famous | C |
| And so the sunny sequels were a | L |
| Gay villa on the Riviera | L |
| A bank account a limousine a | L |
| Life patterned dolce e divina | M |
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| Oh yes my lyric flight is flighty | N |
| My muse is much more mite than mighty | N |
| But poetry has been my friend | O |
| And rhyming's saved me in the end | O |
Robert William Service
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