Songs Of Education: Vi. Hygiene Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEDCCCD FGHGIIIG JKLKMMMK NOPOMMMO| Form Sub Section X | A |
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| All practical Eugenists are agreed on the importance of sleep The Eugenic Congress | B |
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| When Science taught mankind to breathe | C |
| A little while ago | D |
| Only a wise and thoughtful few | E |
| Were really in the know | D |
| Nor could the Youth his features wreathe | C |
| Puffing from all the lungs beneath | C |
| When Duty whispered softly Breathe | C |
| The Youth would answer Blow | D |
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| When Science proved with lucid care | F |
| The need of Exercise | G |
| Our thoughtless Youth was climbing trees | H |
| Or lightly blacking eyes | G |
| To reckless idlers breaking bounds | I |
| For football or for hare and hounds | I |
| Or fighting hard for fourteen rounds | I |
| It came as a surprise | G |
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| But when she boldly counsels Sleep | J |
| To persons when in bed | K |
| Then then indeed men blush to see | L |
| The daybreak blushing red | K |
| The early risers whom we term | M |
| Healthy grow sickly and infirm | M |
| The Early Bird who caught the Worm | M |
| Will catch the Germ instead | K |
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| For this at least be Science praised | N |
| If all the rest be rot | O |
| That now she snubs the priggish child | P |
| That quits too soon his cot | O |
| The pharisaic pachyderm | M |
| Of spiritual pride shall squirm | M |
| The Early Bird catches the worm | M |
| The Worm that dieth not | O |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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