Tom's Garland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDDEDDDDFFFGG| upon the Unemployed | A |
| - | |
| Tom garlanded with squat and surly steel | B |
| Tom then Tom's fallowbootfellow piles pick | C |
| By him and rips out rockfire homeforth sturdy Dick | C |
| Tom Heart at ease Tom Navvy he is all for his meal | B |
| Sure 's bed now Low be it lustily he his low lot feel | B |
| That ne'er need hunger Tom Tom seldom sick | C |
| Seldomer heartsore that treads through prickproof thick | C |
| Thousands of thorns thoughts swings though Commonweal | B |
| Little I reck ho lacklevel in if all had bread | D |
| What Country is honour enough in all us lordly head | D |
| With heaven's lights high hung round or mother ground | E |
| That mammocks mighty foot But no way sped | D |
| Nor mind nor mainstrength gold go garlanded | D |
| With perilous O n oacute nor yet plod safe shod sound | D |
| Undenizened beyond bound | D |
| Of earth's glory earth's ease all no one nowhere | F |
| In wide the world's weal rare gold bold steel bare | F |
| In both care but share care | F |
| This by Despair bred Hangdog dull by Rage | G |
| Manwolf worse and their packs infest the age | G |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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