Industrial Discontent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHIJ KLKLMM NONPQ| As time rolled on the whole world came to be | A |
| A desolation and a darksome curse | B |
| And some one said 'The changes that you see | A |
| In the fair frame of things from bad to worse | B |
| Are wrought by strikes The sun withdrew his glimmer | C |
| Because the moon assisted with her shimmer | C |
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| 'Then when poor Luna straining very hard | D |
| Doubled her light to serve a darkling world | E |
| He called her 'scab ' and meanly would retard | D |
| Her rising and at last the villain hurled | E |
| A heavy beam which knocked her o'er the Lion | F |
| Into the nebula of great O'Ryan | F |
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| 'The planets all had struck some time before | G |
| Demanding what they said were equal rights | H |
| Some pointing out that others had far more | G |
| That a fair dividend of satellites | H |
| So all went out though those the best provided | I |
| If they had dared would rather have abided | J |
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| 'The stars struck too I think it was because | K |
| The comets had more liberty than they | L |
| And were not bound by any hampering laws | K |
| While they were fixed and there are those who say | L |
| The comets' tresses nettled poor Altair | M |
| An aged orb that hasn't any hair | M |
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| 'The earth's the only one that isn't in | N |
| The movement I suppose because she's watched | O |
| With horror and disgust how her fair skin | N |
| Her pranking parasites have fouled and blotched | P |
| With blood and grease in every labor riot | Q |
| When seeing any purse or throat to fly at ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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