Work Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD AEAEFGFG HIHIJKJK LFLFMNMN OJOJPQPR ISISMTMT| When I am busying about | A |
| Sewing on buttons tapes and strings | B |
| Hanging the week's wet washing out | A |
| Or ironing the children's things | B |
| Sweeping and dusting cleaning grates | C |
| Scrubbing the dresser or the floors | D |
| Washing the greasy dinner plates | C |
| Scouring the brasses on the doors | D |
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| I wonder what it's all about | A |
| And when did people first begin | E |
| To keep the dirt and wornness out | A |
| And keep the wholesome comfort in | E |
| How long it is since women bore | F |
| This round of wash and make and mend | G |
| And what God makes us do it for | F |
| And whether it will ever end | G |
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| When God began to do His work | H |
| He made a new thing every day | I |
| Even now He is not one to shirk | H |
| But makes things always some new way | I |
| He made the earth and sky and sun | J |
| The creatures of the sea and wood | K |
| And when his first week's work was done | J |
| He saw that it was very good | K |
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| But He for all He worked so fast | L |
| To finish air and wave and shore | F |
| Knew that this work of His would last | L |
| For ever and for evermore | F |
| On Saturday night He was content | M |
| He knew that Monday would not bring | N |
| Need for another firmament | M |
| Another set of everything | N |
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| But though my work is easier far | O |
| Than making sky and sea and sun | J |
| It's harder than God's labours are | O |
| Because my work is never done | J |
| I sweep and churn save and contrive | P |
| I bake and brew I don't complain | Q |
| But every Monday morning I've | P |
| Last Monday's work to do again | R |
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| I'm good at work I work away | I |
| Always the same my work must go | S |
| The flowers grow different every day | I |
| That's why I like to see them grow | S |
| If up in Heaven God understood | M |
| He'd let me for my Paradise | T |
| Make all things new and very good | M |
| And never make the same thing twice | T |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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