Tea On The Lawn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCB DADAEF GBGBAA HIHIJJ DBDBKK LALAMM| It was foretold by sybils three | A |
| that in an air crash he would die | B |
| I'll fool their prophesy said he | A |
| You won't get me to go on high | B |
| Howe're the need for haste and speed | C |
| I'll never never never fly | B |
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| It's true he traveled everywhere | D |
| Afar and near by land and sea | A |
| Yet he would never go by air | D |
| And chance an evil destiny | A |
| Always by ship or rail he went | E |
| For him no sky plane accident | F |
| - | |
| Then one day walking on the heath | G |
| He watched a pilot chap on high | B |
| And chuckled as he stood beneath | G |
| That lad a looping in the sky | B |
| Feeling so safe and full of glee | A |
| Serenely he went home to tea | A |
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| With buttered toast he told his wife | H |
| My dear you can't say I've been rash | I |
| Three fortune tellers said my life | H |
| Would end up in an air plane crash | I |
| But see I'm here so safe and sound | J |
| By gad I'll never leave the ground | J |
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| For me no baptism of air | D |
| It's in my bed I mean to die | B |
| Behold yon crazy fool up there | D |
| A cutting capers in the sky | B |
| His motor makes a devilish din | K |
| Look Look He's gone into a spin | K |
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| He's dashing downward Oh my God | L |
| Alas he never finished tea | A |
| The motor ploughed the garden sod | L |
| And in the crash a corpse was he | A |
| Proving that no man can frustrate | M |
| The merciless design of Fate | M |
Robert William Service
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