Work Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJEKEK| When twenty one I loved to dream | A |
| And was to loafing well inclined | B |
| Somehow I couldn't get up steam | A |
| To welcome work of any kind | B |
| While students burned the midnight lamp | C |
| With dour ambition as their goad | D |
| I longed to be a gayful tramp | C |
| And greet adventure on the road | D |
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| But now that sixty years have sped | E |
| Behold I toil from morn to night | F |
| The thoughts that teem into my head | E |
| I pray God give me time to write | F |
| With eager and unflagging pen | G |
| No drudgery of desk I shirk | H |
| And preach to all retiring men | G |
| The gospel of unceasing work | H |
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| And yet I do not sadly grieve | I |
| Such squandering of golden days | J |
| For from my dreaming I believe | I |
| Have stemmed my least unworthy lays | J |
| Aye toil is best when all is said | E |
| As age has made me understand | K |
| So fitly fold when I am dead | E |
| A pencil in my hand | K |
Robert Service
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