Afternoon In School The Last Lesson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDCDEFEE GEHEIJIKKEJE| When will the bell ring and end this weariness | A |
| How long have they tugged the leash and strained apart | B |
| My pack of unruly hounds I cannot start | B |
| Them again on a quarry of knowledge they hate to hunt | C |
| I can haul them and urge them no more | D |
| No more can I endure to bear the brunt | C |
| Of the books that lie out on the desks a full three score | D |
| Of several insults of blotted pages and scrawl | E |
| Of slovenly work that they have offered me | F |
| I am sick and tired more than any thrall | E |
| Upon the woodstacks working weariedly | E |
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| And shall I take | G |
| The last dear fuel and heap it on my soul | E |
| Till I rouse my will like a fire to consume | H |
| Their dross of indifference and burn the scroll | E |
| Of their insults in punishment I will not | I |
| I will not waste myself to embers for them | J |
| Not all for them shall the fires of my life be hot | I |
| For myself a heap of ashes of weariness till sleep | K |
| Shall have raked the embers clear I will keep | K |
| Some of my strength for myself for if I should sell | E |
| It all for them I should hate them | J |
| I will sit and wait for the bell | E |
David Herbert Lawrence
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