The Weary Philosopher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEFFGG HHIIJJ KKLLMM LLNNLL OOPPN| I can conceive no heav'nly bliss | A |
| More perfectly complete than this | A |
| To sit and smoke and idly chew | B |
| Reflection's cud with nought to do | B |
| This is in my pet social plan | C |
| The right of ev'ry honest man | C |
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| I can conceive no punishment | D |
| For wicked men of evil bent | E |
| Who cheat and lie and drink and rob | F |
| More meet than giving them a job | F |
| This is to my unruffled mind | G |
| Correction of the sternest kind | G |
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| I can conceive a world in dreams | H |
| A happy restful world it seems | H |
| A wise well ordered globe wherein | I |
| Men toil to expiate a sin | I |
| While harmless and right thinking folk | J |
| Have nought to do but sit and smoke | J |
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| I ask but to be left alone | K |
| And let the wicked man atone | K |
| In graft for having energy | L |
| To sin against society | L |
| For clearly I commit no crime | M |
| Since I do nothing all the time | M |
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| Sins of omssion you will see | L |
| Don't count in my philosophy | L |
| And it is safer far to shirk | N |
| Lest working one might find more work | N |
| No man is able to foresee | L |
| The far effects of energy | L |
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| But in this thoughtless restless age | O |
| What honor is there for the sage | O |
| When Philistines in manner rude | P |
| Disturb my sleepy solitude | P |
| Where in my peaceful bower I lurk | N |
| And coarsely shout at me 'Get work ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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