On Strike Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJJKJK LMLMDIDI MMMMIFIF MNMN| He wandered slipshod through the street | A |
| His clothes had many a rent | B |
| His shoes seemed dropping from his feet | A |
| His eyes were downward bent | B |
| His face was sallow pale and thin | C |
| His beard neglected grew | D |
| Upon his once close shaven chin | C |
| Like bristles sticking through | D |
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| I'd known him in much better state | E |
| As old hard working Mike | F |
| I asked would he the cause relate | E |
| Said he Awm aght on th' strike | F |
| Yo're capt noa daat to see me thus | G |
| Aw'm shamed to meet a friend | H |
| It's varry hard on th' mooast on us | G |
| We wish 't wor at an end | H |
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| Aw cannot spend mi time i'th' haase | I |
| An see mi childer pine | J |
| They havn't what'll feed a maase | I |
| But that's noa fault o' mine | J |
| Th' wife's varry nearly brokken daan | J |
| Shoo addles all we get | K |
| Wol aw goa skulkin all throo th' taan | J |
| I' sorrow rags an debt | K |
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| But then yo know it has to be | L |
| Th' committee tells us that | M |
| They owt to know but as for me | L |
| Aw find it's hard that's flat | M |
| They say 'at th' miaisters suffer mooar | D |
| Nor we can ivver guess | I |
| But th' sufferin they may endure | D |
| Maks mine noa morsel less | I |
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| But then th' committee says it's reight | M |
| Soa aw mun rest content | M |
| An we mun still goa on wi' th' feight | M |
| What comes o' jock or rent | M |
| Aw dooant like to desart mi mates | I |
| But one thing aw dooant like | F |
| When th' table shows but empty plates | I |
| It's hard to be on th' strike | F |
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| Gooid day for cake awst ha to fend | M |
| Them childer's maaths to fill | N |
| Th' committee say th' strike sooin will end | M |
| Aw hooap to God it will | N |
John Hartley
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