Sloth (i) & (ii) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDCCBECFECF AGHHGGHHGIJKLMK| Sloth I | A |
| Too many a Samsan lip your teeth indent | B |
| Too many a Sybil girl you lure to make | C |
| The Great Refusal for a fireside sake | C |
| And glamoured poet many a look has sent | B |
| Into those eyeballs bear brown somnolent | D |
| Nor dreamed that devils in each muddy lake | C |
| Were sucking his devotion in to slake | C |
| The furrowed belly of your fanged content | B |
| Religion's bane and Freedom's subtlest foe | E |
| Behold the poppied freight your barges bring | C |
| The dim lit souls that crave the prophet's gleam | F |
| Or fettered people's writhing 'neath their woe | E |
| Gossamer clips and thriftless harvesting | C |
| Of phantom flocks and shadowy tilth of dream | F |
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| Sloth II | A |
| My dreams dissolve the day's illusive net | G |
| While crested Action's billows blinding beat | H |
| Omniscient Eyes in troughs of Faith I meet | H |
| I wait with ancient stars until they set | G |
| Lest forward progress should their runes forget | G |
| I am the rest that makes the bar complete | H |
| And in the shackled body of Defeat | H |
| The womb of Baby Triumph living yet | G |
| I am the blende of sleeping radiance | I |
| The Siding where belated Industry | J |
| Draws from a Silent Tank tomorrow's zest | K |
| Prophetic Art's preparatory Trance | L |
| Dilating Force's Sabbath systole | M |
| The Night of Brahm when worn Creators rest | K |
Bernard O'dowd
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