The Complacent Slacker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDBEF GGHDDHI JJKLLKM NNOPPOQQ| When he was just a lad in school | A |
| He used to sit around and fool | A |
| And watch the clock and say | B |
| 'I can't see that I'll ever need | C |
| This stuff the teacher makes me read | D |
| I'll work no more to day | B |
| And anyhow it's almost June | E |
| And school days will be over soon ' | F |
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| One time we played a baseball game | G |
| And when a chance for stealing came | G |
| On second base he stood | H |
| And when we asked him why he said | D |
| 'What was the use they're far ahead | D |
| One run would do no good | H |
| The game is almost over now | I |
| We couldn't win it anyhow ' | - |
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| The same old slacker still is he | J |
| With men at war on land and sea | J |
| And our lads plunging in it | K |
| He spreads afar his old excuse | L |
| 'I'd like to help but what's the use | L |
| The Allied troops will win it | K |
| There's nothing now to make us fret there | M |
| They'll have it won before we get there ' | - |
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| The worst of slackers is the man | N |
| Who will not help whene'er he can | N |
| But plays the idle rover | O |
| And tells to all beset with doubt | P |
| There's naught to be alarmed about | P |
| The storm will soon be over | O |
| Let no such dangerous person lead us | Q |
| To day in France they sadly need us | Q |
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