The Drudge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDECD FGFFG HIHJI| Repose upon her soulless face | A |
| Dig the grave and leave her | B |
| But breathe a prayer that in his grace | A |
| He who so loved this toiling race | A |
| To endless rest receive her | B |
| - | |
| Oh can it be the gates ajar | C |
| Wait not her humble quest | D |
| Whose life was but a patient war | E |
| Against the death that stalked from far | C |
| With neither haste nor rest | D |
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| To whom were sun and moon and cloud | F |
| The streamlet's pebbly coil | G |
| The transient May bound feathered crowd | F |
| The storm's frank fury thunder browed | F |
| But witness of her toil | G |
| - | |
| Whose weary feet knew not the bliss | H |
| Of dance by jocund reed | I |
| Who never dallied at a kiss | H |
| If heaven refuses her life is | J |
| A tragedy indeed | I |
John Charles Mcneill
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