Surtax Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD ABABEFEF GBGBHIJI| When I was young and Scottish I | A |
| Allergic was to spending | B |
| I put a heap of bawbees by | A |
| But now my life is ending | B |
| Although I would my hoarded pelf | C |
| Impetuously scatter | D |
| Each day I live I find myself | C |
| Financially fatter | D |
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| Though all the market I might buy | A |
| There's nothing to my needing | B |
| I only have one bed to lie | A |
| One mouth for feeding | B |
| So what's the good of all that dough | E |
| Accumulating daily | F |
| I should have spent it long ago | E |
| In living gaily | F |
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| So take my tip my prudent friend | G |
| Without misgiving | B |
| Don't guard your fortune to the end | G |
| But blow it living | B |
| Better on bubbly be it spent | H |
| And chorus cuties | I |
| Than pay it to the Government | J |
| For damned Death Duties | I |
Robert William Service
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