For To Admire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FEFE FGHGFFIF JEKEELMN FOKOEEFE PFQFRSRS EEFEJTUT FEFE| The Injian Ocean sets an' smiles | A |
| So sof' so bright so bloomin' blue | B |
| There aren't a wave for miles an' miles | A |
| Excep' the jiggle from the screw | B |
| The ship is swep' the day is done | C |
| The bugle's gone for smoke and play | D |
| An' black agin' the settin' sun | C |
| The Lascar sings quot Hum deckty hai quot quot I'm looking out quot | E |
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| For to admire an' for to see | F |
| For to be'old this world so wide | E |
| It never done no good to me | F |
| But I can't drop it if I tried | E |
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| I see the sergeants pitchin' quoits | F |
| I 'ear the women laugh an' talk | G |
| I spy upon the quarter deck | H |
| The orficers an' lydies walk | G |
| I thinks about the things that was | F |
| An' leans an' looks acrost the sea | F |
| Till spite of all the crowded ship | I |
| There's no one lef' alive but me | F |
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| The things that was which I 'ave seen | J |
| In barrick camp an' action too | E |
| I tells them over by myself | K |
| An' sometimes wonders if they're true | E |
| For they was odd most awful odd | E |
| But all the same now they are o'er | L |
| There must be 'eaps o' plenty such | M |
| An' if I wait I'll see some more | N |
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| Oh I 'ave come upon the books | F |
| An' frequent broke a barrick rule | O |
| An' stood beside an' watched myself | K |
| Be'avin' like a bloomin' fool | O |
| I paid my price for findin' out | E |
| Nor never grutched the price I paid | E |
| But sat in Clink without my boots | F |
| Admirin' 'ow the world was made | E |
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| Be'old a crowd upon the beam | P |
| An' 'umped above the sea appears | F |
| Old Aden like a barrick stove | Q |
| That no one's lit for years an' years | F |
| I passed by that when I began | R |
| An' I go 'ome the road I came | S |
| A time expired soldier man | R |
| With six years' service to 'is name | S |
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| My girl she said quot Oh stay with me quot | E |
| My mother 'eld me to 'er breast | E |
| They've never written none an' so | F |
| They must 'ave gone with all the rest | E |
| With all the rest which I 'ave seen | J |
| An' found an' known an' met along | T |
| I cannot say the things I feel | U |
| And so I sing my evenin' song | T |
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| For to admire an' for to see | F |
| For to be'old this world so wide | E |
| It never done no good to me | F |
| But I can't drop it if I tried | E |
Rudyard Kipling
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