A Psalm Of Labouring Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KAKA ALAL MNMN GOGO| Tell me not in doctored numbers | A |
| Life is but a name for work | B |
| For the labour that encumbers | A |
| Me I wish that I could shirk | B |
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| Life is phony Life is rotten | C |
| And the wealthy have no soul | D |
| Why should you be picking cotton | C |
| Why should I be mining coal | D |
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| Not employment and not sorrow | E |
| Is my destined end or way | F |
| But to act that each tomorrow | E |
| Finds me idler than today | F |
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| Work is long and plutes are lunching | G |
| Money is the thing I crave | H |
| But my heart continues punching | G |
| Funeral time clocks to the grave | H |
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| In the world's uneven battle | I |
| In the swindle known as life | J |
| Be not like the stockyard's cattle | I |
| Stick your partner with the knife | J |
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| Trust no boss however pleasant | K |
| Capital is but a curse | A |
| Strike strike in the living present | K |
| Fill oh fill the bulging purse | A |
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| Lives of strikers all remind us | A |
| We can make our lives a crime | L |
| And departing leave behind us | A |
| Bills for double overtime | L |
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| Charges that perhaps another | M |
| Working for a stingy ten | N |
| Bucks a day some mining brother | M |
| Seeing shall walk out again | N |
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| Let us then be up and striking | G |
| Discontent with all of it | O |
| Still undoing still disliking | G |
| Learn to labour and to quit | O |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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