The Shorter Week Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGF ABH EIJJI ABK EKLLK ABM NOPPO| I worked for fifty hours a week | A |
| And someone said to me | B |
| 'Don't be a serf Throw off your chains | C |
| And show the world you're free ' | D |
| So I cut down my working hours | E |
| And found upon the whole | F |
| The leisure time I had to spare | G |
| Good for my body's carking care | G |
| And better for my soul | F |
| - | |
| I worked for forty hours a week | A |
| And someone said to me | B |
| 'Release your bonds you shackled slave | H |
| Show all the world you're free ' | - |
| So I reduced my working hours | E |
| And found in leisured lull | I |
| The more I sought to play the more | J |
| Amusement had become a bore | J |
| And life was rather dull | I |
| - | |
| I worked for twenty hours a week | A |
| And someone said to me | B |
| 'Awake you mutt Snap out of it | K |
| And show the world you're free ' | - |
| So I cut out my working hours | E |
| And found that joy had flit | K |
| Upon black melancholia's brink | L |
| I sometimes used to sit and think | L |
| And sometimes merely sit | K |
| - | |
| I worked for not one hour a week | A |
| And someone said to me | B |
| 'You lazy coot Arise and shine | M |
| You call this being free ' | - |
| So I resolved I'd better far | N |
| Rejoin the toiling mob | O |
| But when I rose and looked around | P |
| To my intense digust I found | P |
| Someone had pinched my job | O |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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