The Living Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIIIKIK LMLMDNDN OPOPQRQR| Since I have come to years sedate | A |
| I see with more and more acumen | B |
| The bitter irony of Fate | A |
| The vanity of all things human | B |
| Why just to day some fellow said | C |
| As I surveyed Fame's outer portal | D |
| By gad I thought that you were dead | C |
| Poor me who dreamed to be immortal | D |
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| But that's the way with many men | E |
| Whose name one fancied time defying | F |
| We thought that they were dust and then | E |
| We found them living by their dying | F |
| Like dogs we penmen have our day | G |
| To brief best sellerdom elected | H |
| And then thumbs down we slink away | G |
| And die forgotten and neglected | H |
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| Ah well my lyric fling I've had | I |
| A thousand bits of verse I've minted | J |
| And some alas were very bad | I |
| And some alack were best unprinted | I |
| But if I've made my muse a bawd | I |
| Since I am earthy as a ditch is | K |
| I'll answer humbly to my God | I |
| Most men at times have toyed with bitches | K |
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| Yes I have played with Lady Rhyme | L |
| And had a long and lovely innings | M |
| And when the Umpire calls my time | L |
| I'll blandly quit and take my winnings | M |
| I'll hie me to some Sleepydale | D |
| And feed the ducks and pat the poodles | N |
| And prime my paunch with cakes and ale | D |
| And blether with the village noodles | N |
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| And then some day you'll idly scan | O |
| The Times obituary column | P |
| And say Dear me the poor old man | O |
| And for a moment you'll look solemn | P |
| So all this time he's been alive | Q |
| In realms of rhyme a second rater | R |
| But gad to live to ninety five | Q |
| Let's toast his ghost a sherry waiter | R |
Robert William Service
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