The Idler Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDC EFFEGHHG IJJIAKKA| If but one spark of honest zeal | A |
| Flashes to life within his breast | B |
| A feeble flick'ring spark at best | B |
| If for a moment he doth feel | A |
| A dim desire to throw aside | C |
| The bonds that idleness has wrought | D |
| To do to be the man he ought | D |
| The tyrant thing he calls his pride | C |
| - | |
| The curse of all things good on earth | E |
| Takes on the cruel midwife's role | F |
| And each high impulse of the soul | F |
| Is strangled in the hour of birth | E |
| To dig I am ashamed quoth he | G |
| Mine is the pride of name and race | H |
| That scorns to fill such humble space | H |
| Life's lowly tasks are not for me | G |
| - | |
| Oh he can flatter with his tongue | I |
| Can toady to the rich and great | J |
| Can fawn on those he feels to hate | J |
| Until from out his nature's wrung | I |
| Each shred of honesty and zeal | A |
| Each impulse independent strong | K |
| Till truth and honor's but a song | K |
| And naught is beautiful or real | A |
Jean Blewett
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