The Idealist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDBEEEB FFFBGGGB| Oh you who have daring deeds to tell | A |
| And you who have felt Ambition's spell | A |
| Have you heard of the louse who longed to dwell | A |
| In the golden hair of a queen | B |
| He sighed all day and he sighed all night | C |
| And no one could understand it quite | C |
| For the head of a slut is a louse's delight | C |
| But he pined for the head of a queen | B |
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| So he left his kinsfolk in merry play | D |
| And off by his lonesome he stole away | D |
| From the home of his youth so bright and gay | D |
| And gloriously unclean | B |
| And at last he came to the palace gate | E |
| And he made his way in a manner straight | E |
| For a louse may go where a man must wait | E |
| To the tiring room of the queen | B |
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| The queen she spake to her tiring maid | F |
| There's something the matter I'm afraid | F |
| To night ere for sleep my hair ye braid | F |
| Just see what may be seen | B |
| And lo when they combed that shining hair | G |
| They found him alone in his glory there | G |
| And he cried I die but I do not care | G |
| For I've lived in the head of a queen | B |
Robert William Service
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