Worm Either Way Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC ADEC FGH EGIJAKL MNONPQRSRT RUVWSXYEK| If you live along with all the other people | A |
| and are just like them and conform and are nice | B |
| you're just a worm | C |
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| and if you live with all the other people | A |
| and you don't like them and won't be like them and won't conform | D |
| then you're just the worm that has turned | E |
| in either case a worm | C |
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| The conforming worm stays just inside the skin | F |
| respectably unseen and cheerfully gnaws away at the heart of life | G |
| making it all rotten inside | H |
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| The unconforming worm that is the worm that has turned | E |
| gnaws just the same gnawing the substance out of life | G |
| but he insists on gnawing a little hole in the social epidermis | I |
| and poking his head out and waving himself | J |
| and saying Look at me I am not respectable | A |
| I do all the things the bourgeois daren't do | K |
| I booze and fornicate and use foul language and despise your honest man | L |
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| But why should the worm that has turned protest so much | M |
| The bonnie bonnie bourgeois goes a whoring up back streets just the same | N |
| The busy busy bourgeois imbibes his little share | O |
| just the same | N |
| if not more | P |
| The pretty pretty bourgeois pinks his language just as pink | Q |
| if not pinker | R |
| and in private boasts his exploits even louder if you ask me | S |
| than the other | R |
| While as to honesty Oh look where the money lies | T |
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| So I can't see where the worm that has turned puts anything over | R |
| the worm that is too cunning to turn | U |
| On the contrary he merely gives himself away | V |
| The turned worm shouts I bravely booze | W |
| the other says Have one with me | S |
| The turned worm boasts I copulate | X |
| the unturned says You look it | Y |
| You're a d b b p bb says the worm that's turned | E |
| Quite says the other Cuckoo | K |
David Herbert Lawrence
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