The Tunnel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL| Toil's a tunnel there's no way out | A |
| For fellows the like o' me | B |
| A beggar wi' only a crust an' a clout | A |
| At the worst o' the worst is free | B |
| but I work to eat an' I eat to work | C |
| It's always the same old round | D |
| And I dassent fail for the day I shirk | C |
| They'll shovel me underground | D |
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| I guess God meant it to be that way | E |
| For a man must make his bread | F |
| I was born to bondage to earn my pay | E |
| To slave to the day I'm dead | F |
| To live in a tunnel to die in a ditch | G |
| That's just what us fellows do | H |
| For the poor must be makin' the rich more rich | G |
| An' the many must serve the few | H |
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| Aye we live in a tunnel most o' us | I |
| A fearin' to lose our job | J |
| But who has the right to gripe an' cuss | I |
| So the goblet's hot on the hob | J |
| An' I mustn't be havin' the wife complain | K |
| An' I can't let the childer fast | L |
| So I'll toil in my tunnel an' drag my chain | K |
| Clank Clank Clank to the last | L |
Robert Service
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