Roulette Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL MNMNOO PHPHQQ| I'll wait until my money's gone | A |
| Before I take the sleeping pills | B |
| Then when they find me in the dawn | A |
| Remote from earthly ails and ills | B |
| They'll say She's broke the foreign bitch | C |
| And dump me in the common ditch | C |
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| So thought I of all hope bereft | D |
| And by my evil fate obsessed | E |
| A thousand franks was all I'd left | D |
| Of that fair fortune I possessed | E |
| I throw it on the table there | F |
| And wait with on my lips a prayer | F |
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| I fear my very life's at stake | G |
| My note is lying on the Red | H |
| I know I'll lose it then I'll take | G |
| My pills and sleep until I'm dead | H |
| Oh God of mercy understand | I |
| In pity guide the croupier's hand | I |
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| My heart beats hard my lips are dry | J |
| I feel I cannot bear to look | K |
| I dread to hear the croupier's cry | J |
| I'll sit down in this quiet nook | K |
| The lights go dim my senses reel | L |
| See Jesus Christ is at the wheel | L |
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| Kind folks arouse me from my trance | M |
| The Red has come ten times they say | N |
| Oh do not risk another chance | M |
| Please Lady take your gains away | N |
| And to the Lord of Luck give thanks | O |
| You've won nigh half a million franks | O |
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| Aye call me just a daft old dame | P |
| I knit and sew to make my bread | H |
| And nevermore I'll play that game | P |
| For I've a glory in my head | H |
| Ah well I know to stay my fall | Q |
| 'Twas our dear Lord who spun the ball | Q |
Robert William Service
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