A Sane Revolution Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DE FF FFGH IJI KLHKA| If you make a revolution make it for fun | A |
| don't make it in ghastly seriousness | B |
| don't do it in deadly earnest | C |
| do it for fun | A |
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| Don't do it because you hate people | D |
| do it just to spit in their eye | E |
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| Don't do it for the money | F |
| do it and be damned to the money | F |
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| Don't do it for equality | F |
| do it because we've got too much equality | F |
| and it would be fun to upset the apple cart | G |
| and see which way the apples would go a rolling | H |
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| Don't do it for the working classes | I |
| Do it so that we can all of us be little aristocracies on our own | J |
| and kick our heels like jolly escaped asses | I |
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| Don't do it anyhow for international Labour | K |
| Labour is the one thing a man has had too much of | L |
| Let's abolish labour let's have done with labouring | H |
| Work can be fun and men can enjoy it then it's not labour | K |
| Let's have it so Let's make a revolution for fun | A |
David Herbert Lawrence
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