Alton Locke's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCB DEFFFE GHIIIH J| Weep 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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