The Undying Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEFFGG HHBBII JJBBKK LLMMNNShe was so wonderful I wondered | A |
If wedding me she had not blundered | A |
She was so pure so high above me | B |
I marvelled how she came to love me | B |
Or did she Well in her own fashion | C |
Affection pity never passion | C |
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I knew I was not worth her love | D |
Yet oh how wistfully I strove | E |
To be her equal in some way | F |
She knew I tried and I would pray | F |
Some day she'd hold her head in pride | G |
And stand with praising by my side | G |
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A Weakling I she made me strong | H |
My finest thoughts to her belong | H |
Through twenty years she mothered me | B |
And then one day she smothered me | B |
With kisses saying wild with joy | I |
Soon we'll be three let's hope a boy | I |
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Too old to bear a child they said | J |
Well they were right for both are dead | J |
Ah no not dead she is with me | B |
And by my side she'll ever be | B |
Her spirit lingers half divine | K |
All good I do is hers not mine | K |
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God by my works O let me strive | L |
To keep her gentleness alive | L |
Let in my heart her spirit glow | M |
And by my thoughts for others show | M |
She is not dead she'll never die | N |
While love for humankind have I | N |
Robert William Service
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