The Centenarian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACADAD EFEFFAF GHGHIJI| Great Grandfather was ninety nine | A |
| And so it was our one dread | B |
| That though his health was superfine | A |
| He'd fail to make the hundred | C |
| Though he was not a rolling stone | A |
| No moss he seemed to gather | D |
| A patriarch of brawn and bone | A |
| Was Great Grandfather | D |
| - | |
| He should have been senile and frail | E |
| Instead of hale and hearty | F |
| But no he loved a mug of ale | E |
| A boisterous old party | F |
| 'As frisky as a cold ' said he | F |
| 'A man's allotted span | A |
| I've lived but now I plan to be | F |
| A Centenarian ' | - |
| - | |
| Then one night when I called on him | G |
| Oh what a change I saw | H |
| His head was bowed his eye was dim | G |
| Down fallen was his jaw | H |
| Said he 'Leave me to die I pray | I |
| I'm no more bloody use | J |
| For in my mouth I found today | I |
| A tooth that's loose ' | - |
Robert William Service
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