The Hidden Wealth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EDED FCFC GDGG| Adam and Eve together stood | A |
| Amid the crop they both were tending | B |
| While far away the feathery wood | A |
| Of Eden in the wind was bending | B |
| - | |
| And Adam feeling in his veins | C |
| The better for his splendid tussle | D |
| Laughed at his body for its pains | C |
| And showed to Eve his hardening muscle | D |
| - | |
| Fine was the bread his sweat had earned | E |
| Despite the fields of rock and thistle | D |
| While daily wounds and baulkings turned | E |
| His olden softness into gristle | D |
| - | |
| So thinking deeply of the life | F |
| Of chartered idleness and blisses | C |
| Suddenly he seized his comely wife | F |
| And took her mouth by storm with kisses | C |
| - | |
| quot Dear heart quot he cried quot we fare the best | G |
| When earth and labour roughly grapple | D |
| Who could have thought the only rest | G |
| Worth having centred in an apple quot | G |
Norman Rowland Gale
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