Security Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE CFBFGADA EGCGEBHB IJEJKLML ININGDOD PQCQRASA TNONUVUW XAFANCNC| There once was a limpet puffed with pride | A |
| Who said to the ribald sea | B |
| It isn't I who cling to the rock | C |
| It's the rock that clings to me | B |
| It's the silly old rock who hugs me tight | D |
| Because he loves me so | E |
| And though I struggle with all my might | D |
| He will not let me go | E |
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| Then said the sea who hates the rock | C |
| That defies him night and day | F |
| You want to be free well leave it to me | B |
| I'll help you get away | F |
| I know such a beautiful silver beach | G |
| Where blissfully you may bide | A |
| Shove off to night when the moon is bright | D |
| And I'll swig you thee on my tide | A |
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| I'd like to go said the limpet low | E |
| But what's a silver beach | G |
| It's sand said the sea bright baby rock | C |
| And you shall be lord of each | G |
| Righto said the limpet Life allures | E |
| And a rover I would be | B |
| So greatly bold she slacked her hold | H |
| And launched on the laughing sea | B |
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| But when she got to the gelid deep | I |
| Where the waters swish and swing | J |
| She began to know with a sense of woe | E |
| That a limpet's lot is to cling | J |
| but she couldn't cling to a jelly fish | K |
| Or clutch at a wastrel weed | L |
| So she raised a cry as the waves went by | M |
| but the waves refused to heed | L |
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| Then when she came to the glaucous deep | I |
| Where the congers coil and leer | N |
| The flesh in her shell began to creep | I |
| And she shrank in utter fear | N |
| It was good to reach that silver beach | G |
| That gleamed in the morning light | D |
| Where a shining band of the silver sand | O |
| Looked up with with a welcome bright | D |
| - | |
| Looked up with a smile that was full of guile | P |
| Called up through the crystal blue | Q |
| Each one of us is a baby rock | C |
| And we want to cling to you | Q |
| Then the heart of the limpet leaped with joy | R |
| For she hated the waters wide | A |
| So down she sank to the sandy bank | S |
| That clung to her under side | A |
| - | |
| That clung so close she couldn't breath | T |
| So fierce she fought to be free | N |
| But the silver sand couldn't understand | O |
| While above her laughed the sea | N |
| Then to each wave that wimpled past | U |
| She cried in her woe and pain | V |
| Oh take me back let me rivet fast | U |
| To my steadfast rock again | W |
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| She cried till she roused a taxi crab | X |
| Who gladly gave her a ride | A |
| But I grieve to say in his crabby way | F |
| He insisted she sit inside | A |
| So if of the limpet breed ye be | N |
| Beware life's brutal shock | C |
| Don't take the chance of the changing sea | N |
| But cling like hell to your rock | C |
Robert William Service
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