Alton Locke's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCB DEFFFE GHIIIH JWeep weep weep and weep | A |
For pauper dolt and slave | B |
Hark from wasted moor and fen | C |
Feverous alley stifling den | C |
Swells the wail of Saxon men | C |
Work or the grave | B |
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Down down down and down | D |
With idler knave and tyrant | E |
Why for sluggards cark and moil | F |
He that will not live by toil | F |
Has no right on English soil | F |
God's word's our warrant | E |
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Up up up and up | G |
Face your game and play it | H |
The night is past behold the sun | I |
The idols fall the lie is done | I |
The Judge is set the doom begun | I |
Who shall stay it | H |
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On Torridge May | J |
Charles Kingsley
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