Dumb-bells Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EEFFGG BHIIJJ KKLLMM| DUMB BELLS left dumb bells right | A |
| Swing them hard grip them tight | A |
| Thirty fat men of the town | B |
| Must sweat their filthy paunches down | B |
| Dripping sweat and pumping blood | C |
| They try to make themselves like God | D |
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| One and two three and four | E |
| Cleave the air and smite the floor | E |
| Five and six seven and eight | F |
| Legs apart shoulders straight | F |
| Thirty fat men grunt and puff | G |
| Thirty bellies plead Enough | G |
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| Dumb bells up dumb bells down | B |
| Dumb bells front dumb bells ground | H |
| Thirty's God has just the girth | I |
| To pull the levers of the earth | I |
| They made him sinewy and lean | J |
| And washed him glittering white and clean | J |
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| Dumb bells in dumb bells out | K |
| Count by fours and face about | K |
| Put by dumb bells for to day | L |
| Wash the stinking sweat away | L |
| And go out clean But come again | M |
| Worship's every night at ten | M |
John Crowe Ransom
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