Seven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHIHJJ KEEKCC| If on water and sweet bread | A |
| Seven years I'll add to life | B |
| For me will no blood be shed | A |
| No lamb know the evil knife | B |
| Excellently will I dine | C |
| On a crust and Adam's wine | C |
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| If a bed in monkish cell | D |
| Well mean old of age to me | E |
| Let me in a convent dwell | D |
| And from fellow men be free | E |
| Let my mellow sunset days | F |
| Pass in piety and praise | F |
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| For I love each hour I live | G |
| Wishing it were twice as long | H |
| Dawn my gratitude I give | I |
| Laud the Lord with evensong | H |
| Now that moons are sadly few | J |
| How I grudge the grave its due | J |
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| Yet somehow I seem to know | K |
| Seven Springs are left to me | E |
| Seven Mays may cherry tree | E |
| Will allume with sudden snow | K |
| Then let seven candles shine | C |
| Silver peace above my shrine | C |
Robert William Service
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