Illness And Idleness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEABF BGFHIJBK| Illness and idleness give me much leisure | A |
| What do I do with my leisure when it comes | B |
| I cannot bring myself to discard inkstone and brush | C |
| Now and then I make a new poem | D |
| When the poem is made it is slight and flavourless | B |
| A thing of derision to almost every one | E |
| Superior people will be pained by the flatness of the metre | A |
| Common people will hate the plainness of the words | B |
| I sing it to myself then stop and think about it | F |
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| The Prefects of Soochow and Peng tse | B |
| Would perhaps have praised it but they died long ago | G |
| Who else would care to hear it | F |
| No one today except Yuan Chen | H |
| And he is banished to the City of Chiang ling | I |
| For three years an usher in the Penal Court | J |
| Parted from me by three thousand leagues | B |
| He will never know even that the poem was made | K |
Bai Juyi
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