On No Work Of Words Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DDC EEF GHIJ| On no work of words now for three lean months in the | A |
| bloody | B |
| Belly of the rich year and the big purse of my body | B |
| I bitterly take to task my poverty and craft | C |
| - | |
| To take to give is all return what is hungrily given | D |
| Puffing the pounds of manna up through the dew to heaven | D |
| The lovely gift of the gab bangs back on a blind shaft | C |
| - | |
| To lift to leave from treasures of man is pleasing death | E |
| That will rake at last all currencies of the marked breath | E |
| And count the taken forsaken mysteries in a bad dark | F |
| - | |
| To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice | G |
| Ancient woods of my blood dash down to the nut of the seas | H |
| If I take to burn or return this world which is each man's | I |
| work | J |
Dylan Thomas
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