The Worm Will Turn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDCDEE FFFFGHGHEE IJJIFKFKEE LBBLMNMNEE| I'm a gentle meek and patient human worm | A |
| Unattractive | B |
| Rather active | B |
| With a sense of right original but firm | A |
| I was taught to be forgiving | C |
| For my enemies to pray | D |
| But what's the use of living | C |
| If you never can repay | D |
| All the little animosities that in your bosom burn | E |
| Oh it's pleasant to remember that the worm will turn | E |
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| I'm so gentle and so patient and so meek | F |
| Unpretending | F |
| Unoffending | F |
| But if perchance you smite me on the cheek | F |
| I will never turn the other | G |
| As I was taught to do | H |
| By a puritanic mother | G |
| Whose theology was blue | H |
| Your experience will widen when explicitly you learn | E |
| How a modest mild submissive little worm will turn | E |
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| I'm so subtle and so crafty and so sly | I |
| I am humble | J |
| But I tumble | J |
| To the slightest oscillation of the eye | I |
| When others think they're winning | F |
| A fabulous amount | K |
| Then I do a little sinning | F |
| On my personal account | K |
| And in my quiet simple way a modest stipend earn | E |
| As they slowly grasp the bitter fact that worms will turn | E |
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| Oh human worms are curious little things | L |
| Inoffensive | B |
| Rather pensive | B |
| Till it comes to using little human stings | L |
| Oh then avoid intrusion | M |
| If you would be discreet | N |
| And cultivate seclusion | M |
| In an underground retreat | N |
| And whenever you are tempted the lowly worm to spurn | E |
| Just bear in mind that little line The worm will turn | E |
Arthur Macy
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