The Thought Toiler Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DDEE AAF AAGH IIII EEJJ KKLL MMAA NNOO IPA Q| A THOUGHT TOILER faint and o'ercome by his labours | A |
| And the manifold troubles by which he was girt | B |
| Combined with the titters and sneers of his neighbours | A |
| Lost heart and thus vented the pangs of his heart | C |
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| 'I'm a weary with care I'm a weary with care | D |
| Surrounded with woes that no mortal can bear | D |
| Whilst I gaze on the night of my ills and survey | E |
| Not a star to direct my lorn soul on its way | E |
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| 'I'm shorn of my strength and the few are my years | A |
| The winter of life on my aspect appears | A |
| Ay the feeling of death steals apace round my core | F |
| Like the sea waves around yon lone rock on the shore ' | - |
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| So rang the wild wail when a voice from the spheres | A |
| Where dwell the good angels awoke on his ears | A |
| 'Refrain from thy tears from thy sorrows refrain | G |
| The gloom that engirts thee shall vanish again | H |
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| 'Tho' in shadows the car of thy destiny's driven | I |
| And thy hopes are extinguished thy bosom chords riven | I |
| Not not in one battle for right hast thou striven | I |
| Unwitness'd by God and the angels of heaven | I |
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| 'And could but thy eyes now be open'd as they | E |
| Will be opened and not in a far distant day | E |
| Thou would'st see for thy trials a guerdon more bright | J |
| Than the jewels that garnish the mantle of night | J |
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| 'For the lava of thought that has sparkled and burned | K |
| In thy innermost soul's to a diadem turned | K |
| And every tear thou hast shed is a gem | L |
| That enhances the worth of that rare diadem | L |
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| 'And every sigh thou hast breathed to a tone | M |
| Far sweeter than music on waters has grown | M |
| And that music will flow in thy new opened ears | A |
| With a might that shall lead thee to bless the past years | A |
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| 'Ah then shalt thou see not in vain hast thou wept | N |
| Not in vain hast thou laboured whilst others have slept | N |
| Not in vain hast thou sorrowed whilst others entranced | O |
| With the pleasures that perish have giggled and danced | O |
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| 'And every trouble and every burden | I |
| And every pang thou hast felt and endured | P |
| Shalt thou find ' cried the voice 'has its own precious | A |
| guerdon ' | - |
| And the Toiler at this to his strength was restored | Q |
Joseph Skipsey
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