The Labourer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCCED FCGHICEJ KCLMKCM ADNOCDPO| For a Heracles in his fighting ire there is never the glory that | A |
| follows | B |
| When ashen he lies and the poets arise to sing of the work he has | C |
| done | D |
| But to vision alive under shallows of sight lo the Labourer's | C |
| crown is Apollo's | C |
| While stands he yet in his grime and sweat to wrestle for fruits of | E |
| the Sun | D |
| - | |
| Can an enemy wither his cheer Not you ye fair yellow flowering | F |
| ladies | C |
| Who join with your lords to jar the chords of a bosom heroic and | G |
| clog | H |
| 'Tis the faltering friend an inanimate land may drag a great soul | I |
| to their Hades | C |
| And plunge him far from a beam of star till he hears the deep bay of | E |
| the Dog | J |
| - | |
| Apparition is then of a monster task in a policy carving new | K |
| fashions | C |
| The winninger course than the rule of force and the springs lured | L |
| to run in a stream | M |
| He would bend tough oak he would stiffen the reed point Reason to | K |
| swallow the passions | C |
| Bid Britons awake two steps to take where one is a trouble extreme | M |
| - | |
| Not the less is he nerved with the Labourer's resolute hope that | A |
| by him shall be written | D |
| To honour his race this deed of grace for the weak from the strong | N |
| made just | O |
| That her sons over seas in a rally of praise may behold a thrice | C |
| vitalised Britain | D |
| Ashine with the light of the doing of right at the gates of the | P |
| Future in trust | O |
George Meredith
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