Tom Paine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC BDBD E FAFAAA GHG II JAJAAAA| An Englishman was Thomas Paine | A |
| Who bled for liberty | B |
| But while his fight was far from vain | A |
| He died in poverty | B |
| Though some are of the sober thinking | C |
| 'Twas due to drinking | C |
| - | |
| Yet this is what appeals to me | B |
| Cobbet a friend loved him so well | D |
| He sailed across the surly sea | B |
| To raw and rigid New Rochelle | D |
| With none to say 'Take him not from us ' | - |
| He raped the grave of Thomas | E |
| - | |
| And in his library he set | F |
| These bones so woe begone | A |
| I have no doubt his eyes were wet | F |
| To scan that skeleton | A |
| That grinning skull from which in season | A |
| Emerged the Age of Reason | A |
| - | |
| Then Cobbet in his turn lay dead | G |
| And auctioneering tones | H |
| Over his chattels rudely said | G |
| 'Who wants them bloody bones ' | - |
| None did so they were scattered far | I |
| And God knows where they are | I |
| - | |
| A friend of Franklin and of Pitt | J |
| He lived a stormy span | A |
| The flame of liberty he lit | J |
| And rang the Rights of Man | A |
| Yet pilgrims from Vermont and Maine | A |
| In hero worship seek in vain | A |
| The bones of Thomas Paine | A |
Robert William Service
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