No Beer, No Work Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC DDEEC FFDDC GGBBC HHIIC| The shades of night was fallin' slow | A |
| As through New York a guy did go | A |
| And nail on ev'ry barroom door | B |
| A card that this here motter bore | B |
| No beer no work | C |
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| His brow was sad his mouth was dry | D |
| It was the first day of July | D |
| And where all parched and scorched it hung | E |
| These words was stenciled on his tongue | E |
| No beer no work | C |
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| Oh stay the maiden said and sup | F |
| This malted milk from this here cup | F |
| A shudder passed through that there guy | D |
| But with a moan he made reply | D |
| No beer no work | C |
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| At break of day as through the town | G |
| The milkman put milk bottles down | G |
| Onto one stoop a sort of snore | B |
| Was heard and then was heard no more | B |
| No beer no work | C |
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| The poor old guy plumb dead was found | H |
| And planted in the buryin' ground | H |
| Still graspin' in his hand of ice | I |
| Them placards with this sad device | I |
| No beer no work | C |
Ellis Parker Butler
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