Just Whistle A Bit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCDD EFEF GGEE HIHI JJKK ELEL MMNN| Just whistle a bit if the day be dark | A |
| And the sky be overcast | B |
| If mute be the voice of the piping lark | A |
| Why pipe your own small blast | B |
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| And it's wonderful how o'er the gray sky track | C |
| The truant warbler comes stealing back | C |
| But why need he come for your soul's at rest | D |
| And the song in the heart ah that is best | D |
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| Just whistle a bit if the night be drear | E |
| And the stars refuse to shine | F |
| And a gleam that mocks the starlight clear | E |
| Within you glows benign | F |
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| Till the dearth of light in the glooming skies | G |
| Is lost to the sight of your soul lit eyes | G |
| What matters the absence of moon or star | E |
| The light within is the best by far | E |
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| Just whistle a bit if there 's work to do | H |
| With the mind or in the soil | I |
| And your note will turn out a talisman true | H |
| To exorcise grim Toil | I |
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| It will lighten your burden and make you feel | J |
| That there 's nothing like work as a sauce for a meal | J |
| And with song in your heart and the meal in its place | K |
| There 'll be joy in your bosom and light in your face | K |
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| Just whistle a bit if your heart be sore | E |
| 'Tis a wonderful balm for pain | L |
| Just pipe some old melody o'er and o'er | E |
| Till it soothes like summer rain | L |
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| And perhaps 't would be best in a later day | M |
| When Death comes stalking down the way | M |
| To knock at your bosom and see if you 're fit | N |
| Then as you wait calmly just whistle a bit | N |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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