The Treadmill Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDAEA FGHGIJKJ LEMENOPO QRSRTUAU VWXWEYZY| The stars are rolling in the sky | A |
| The earth rolls on below | B |
| And we can feel the rattling wheel | C |
| Revolving as we go | B |
| Then tread away my gallant boys | D |
| And make the axle fly | A |
| Why should not wheels go round about | E |
| Like planets in the sky | A |
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| Wake up wake up my duck legged man | F |
| And stir your solid pegs | G |
| Arouse arouse my gawky friend | H |
| And shake your spider legs | G |
| What though you re awkward at the trade | I |
| There s time enough to learn | J |
| So lean upon the rail my lad | K |
| And take another turn | J |
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| They ve built us up a noble wall | L |
| To keep the vulgar out | E |
| We ve nothing in the world to do | M |
| But just to walk about | E |
| So faster now you middle men | N |
| And try to beat the ends | O |
| It s pleasant work to ramble round | P |
| Among one s honest friends | O |
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| Here tread upon the long man s toes | Q |
| He sha n t be lazy here | R |
| And punch the little fellow s ribs | S |
| And tweak that lubber s ear | R |
| He s lost them both don t pull his hair | T |
| Because he wears a scratch | U |
| But poke him in the further eye | A |
| That is n t in the patch | U |
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| Hark fellows there s the supper bell | V |
| And so our work is done | W |
| It s pretty sport suppose we take | X |
| A round or two for fun | W |
| If ever they should turn me out | E |
| When I have better grown | Y |
| Now hang me but I mean to have | Z |
| A treadmill of my own | Y |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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