The Quitter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJJJJ JKJKJJJJ| When you're lost in the Wild and you're scared as a child | A |
| And Death looks you bang in the eye | B |
| And you're sore as a boil it's according to Hoyle | C |
| To cock your revolver and die | B |
| But the Code of a Man says Fight all you can | D |
| And self dissolution is barred | E |
| In hunger and woe oh it's easy to blow | F |
| It's the hell served for breakfast that's hard | E |
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| You're sick of the game Well now that's a shame | G |
| You're young and you're brave and you're bright | H |
| You've had a raw deal I know but don't squeal | I |
| Buck up do your damnedest and fight | H |
| It's the plugging away that will win you the day | J |
| So don't be a piker old pard | J |
| Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit | J |
| It's the keeping your chin up that's hard | J |
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| It's easy to cry that you're beaten and die | J |
| It's easy to crawfish and crawl | K |
| But to fight and to fight when hope's out of sight | J |
| Why that's the best game of them all | K |
| And though you come out of each gruelling bout | J |
| All broken and beaten and scarred | J |
| Just have one more try it's dead easy to die | J |
| It's the keeping on living that's hard | J |
Robert William Service
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