The Answer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB C C DDD EEE FGF HHH CCCC| Bill has left his house of clay | A |
| Slammed the door and gone away | A |
| How he laughed but yesterday | A |
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| I had two new jokes to tell | B |
| Salty but he loved them well | B |
| Now I see his empty shell | B |
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| Poker faced he looks at me | C |
| Peeved to miss them jokes how h | - |
| Would have belly laughed with glee | C |
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| He gives me the pip I swear | D |
| Seems just like he isn't there | D |
| Flown the coop I wonder where | D |
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| Bill had no belief in soul | E |
| Thought the body was the whole | E |
| And the grave the final goal | E |
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| Didn't reckon when we pass | F |
| This old carcass maybe has | G |
| Spirit that sneaks out like gas | F |
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| Look here Bill I'm asking you | H |
| What's the Answer Tell me true | H |
| Is death the end of all we do | H |
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| Hand me out the dope are we | C |
| No more than monkeys on a tree | C |
| And then I swear to God I see | C |
| bill bat an eye and wink at me | C |
Robert William Service
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