Lazy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB CCCDCCCD EEEFGGGF HHHIJJJI| Some men enjoy the constant strife | A |
| Of days with work and worry rife | A |
| But that is not my dream of life | A |
| I think such men are crazy | B |
| For me a life with worries few | C |
| A job of nothing much to do | C |
| Just pelf enough to see me through | C |
| I fear that I am lazy | B |
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| On winter mornings cold and drear | C |
| When six o'clock alarms I hear | C |
| 'Tis then I love to shift my ear | C |
| And hug my downy pillows | D |
| When in the shade it's ninety three | C |
| No job in town looks good to me | C |
| I'd rather loaf down by the sea | C |
| And watch the foaming billows | D |
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| Some people think the world's a school | E |
| Where labor is the only rule | E |
| But I'll not make myself a mule | E |
| And don't you ever doubt it | F |
| I know that work may have its use | G |
| But still I feel that's no excuse | G |
| For turning it into abuse | G |
| What do you think about it | F |
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| Let others fume and sweat and boil | H |
| And scratch and dig for golden spoil | H |
| And live the life of work and toil | H |
| Their lives to labor giving | I |
| But what is gold when life is sped | J |
| And life is short as has been said | J |
| And we are such a long time dead | J |
| I'll spend my life in living | I |
James Weldon Johnson
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