Job Work Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIB JKLK LJML NOPO QLRL BST| 'Write me a rhyme of the present time' | A |
| And the poet took his pen | B |
| And wrote such lines as the miser minds | C |
| Hide in the hearts of men | B |
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| He grew enthused as the poets used | D |
| When their fingers kissed the strings | E |
| Of some sweet lyre and caught the fire | F |
| True inspiration brings | E |
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| And sang the song of a nation's wrong | G |
| Of the patriot's galling chain | H |
| And the glad release that the angel Peace | I |
| Has given him again | B |
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| He sang the lay of religion's sway | J |
| Where a hundred creeds clasp hands | K |
| And shout in glee such a symphony | L |
| That the whole world understands | K |
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| He struck the key of monopoly | L |
| And sang of her swift decay | J |
| And traveled the track of the railway back | M |
| With a blithesome roundelay | L |
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| Of the tranquil bliss of a true love kiss | N |
| And painted the picture too | O |
| Of the wedded life and the patient wife | P |
| And the husband fond and true | O |
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| And sang the joy that a noble boy | Q |
| Brings to a father's soul | L |
| Who lets the wine as a mocker shine | R |
| Stagnated in the bowl | L |
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| And he stabbed his pen in the ink again | B |
| And wrote with a writhing frown | S |
| 'This is the end ' 'And now my friend | T |
| You may print it upside down ' | - |
James Whitcomb Riley
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