Why! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADED FGHG CIJK LMNM OPQP RMST| Why is it we toil so | A |
| Where go all the gains | B |
| What do we produce for it | C |
| All our pangs and pains | B |
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| Why it is we toil so | A |
| Is it because like sheep | D |
| Since our fathers sought the shears | E |
| We the same course keep | D |
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| Where go all the gains Well | F |
| It must be confessed | G |
| First the landlords take the rent | H |
| And the masters take the rest | G |
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| What do we produce for it | C |
| Gentlemen and then | I |
| Imitation snobs who'd be | J |
| Like the gentlemen | K |
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| What is it for such as these | L |
| That we suffer thus | M |
| Fuddle brained and vicious fools | N |
| Vermin venomous | M |
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| What is that why on the top | O |
| Creeps that Royal Louse | P |
| The prince of pheasants and cigars | Q |
| Of ballet girls and grouse | P |
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| Yes that's why my Christian friends | R |
| They slave and slaughter us | M |
| England is made a dunghill that | S |
| Some bugs may breed and buzz | T |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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