The Hearth-stone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCB CDCDCD EAEAEA FGHGHG IJIJKJThe leaves are sick and jaundiced they | A |
Drift down the air | B |
December's sky is sodden grey | A |
Dark with despair | B |
A bleary dawn will light anon | C |
A world of care | B |
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My name is cut into a stone | C |
No care have I | D |
The letters drool as I alone | C |
Forgotten lie | D |
With weed my grave is overgrown | C |
None cometh nigh | D |
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A hundred hollow years will speed | E |
As I decay | A |
And I'll be comrade to the weed | E |
Kin to the clay | A |
Until some hind in homing need | E |
Will pass my way | A |
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Until some lover seeking hearth | F |
With joy will see | G |
My nameless stone sunk in the earth | H |
And it will be | G |
The ruddy birth of childish mirth | H |
And elder glee | G |
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And none will dream it bore my name | I |
Decades ago | J |
A scribbling fool of little fame | I |
Who loved life so | J |
Well flesh is grass and Time must pass | K |
Heigh ho Heigh ho | J |
Robert William Service
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