The Workman And The Man With White Hands - A Dialogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E D F G H I J K I L M N O P| WORKMAN Why do you come crawling up to us What do ye want You're none of us Get along | A |
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| MAN WITH WHITE HANDS I am one of you comrades | B |
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| THE WORKMAN One of us indeed That's a notion Look at my hands D'ye see how dirty they are And they smell of muck and of pitch but yours see are white And what do they smell of | C |
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| THE MAN WITH WHITE HANDS offering his hands Smell them | D |
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| THE WORKMAN sniffing his hands That's a queer start Seems like a smell of iron | E |
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| THE MAN WITH WHITE HANDS Yes iron it is For six long years I wore chains on them | D |
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| THE WORKMAN And what was that for pray | F |
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| THE MAN WITH WHITE HANDS Why because I worked for your good tried to set free the oppressed and the ignorant stirred folks up against your oppressors resisted the authorities So they locked me up | G |
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| THE WORKMAN Locked you up did they Serve you right for resisting | H |
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| Two Years Later | I |
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| THE SAME WORKMAN TO ANOTHER I say Pete Do you remember the year before last a chap with white hands talking to you | J |
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| THE OTHER WORKMAN Yes what of it | K |
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| THE FIRST WORKMAN They're going to hang him to day I heard say that's the order | I |
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| THE SECOND WORKMAN Did he keep on resisting the authorities | L |
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| THE FIRST WORKMAN He kept on | M |
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| THE SECOND WORKMAN Ah Now I say mate couldn't we get hold of a bit of the rope they're going to hang him with They do say it brings good luck to a house | N |
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| THE FIRST WORKMAN You're right there We'll have a try for it mate | O |
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| April | P |
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
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