The Mole Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJKJLMNO PQOQAEAE| Said he I'll dive deep in the Past | A |
| And write a book of direful days | B |
| When summer skies were overcast | A |
| With smoke of humble hearths ablaze | B |
| When War was rampant in the land | C |
| And poor folk cowered in the night | D |
| While ruin gaped on every hand | C |
| of ravishing and wrath I'll write | D |
| - | |
| Ten years he toiled to write his book | E |
| Yet he was happy all the while | F |
| The world he willingly forsook | E |
| T live alone in hermit style | F |
| In garden sanctuaried sweet | G |
| Full favoured by the steadfast sun | H |
| plunged in the Past a life complete | G |
| He lived At last his work was done | H |
| - | |
| A worthy book that few would read | I |
| Yet all would praise each precious page | J |
| Starred with some truth the rare would heed | K |
| The vivid images of an age | J |
| Then blinking to the world again | L |
| He came a sage remote austere | M |
| When lo his eyes were smote with flame | N |
| The wail of war was in his ear | O |
| - | |
| He shrank and sighed Oh can it be | P |
| These old iniquities prevail | Q |
| That sons of men are still unfree | O |
| And time repeats her sorry tale | Q |
| So with a long sad gaze and last | A |
| Seeking his secret garden nook | E |
| He slipped again into the Past | A |
| To live and write another book | E |
Robert William Service
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