Rhymes Of A Rolling Stone - Prelude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGBGB HIHIJBJB| I sing no idle songs of dalliance days | A |
| No dreams Elysian inspire my rhyming | B |
| I have no Celia to enchant my lays | A |
| No pipes of Pan have set my heart to chiming | B |
| I am no wordsmith dripping gems divine | C |
| Into the golden chalice of a sonnet | D |
| If love songs witch you close this book of mine | C |
| Waste no time on it | D |
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| Yet bring I to my work an eager joy | E |
| A lusty love of life and all things human | F |
| Still in me leaps the wonder of the boy | E |
| A pride in man a deathless faith in woman | F |
| Still red blood calls still rings the valiant fray | G |
| Adventure beacons through the summer gloaming | B |
| Oh long and long and long will be the day | G |
| Ere I come homing | B |
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| This earth is ours to love lute brush and pen | H |
| They are but tongues to tell of life sincerely | I |
| The thaumaturgic Day the might of men | H |
| O God of Scribes grant us to grave them clearly | I |
| Grant heart that homes in heart then all is well | J |
| Honey is honey sweet howe'er the hiving | B |
| Each to his work his wage at evening bell | J |
| The strength of striving | B |
Robert William Service
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