Brown Lung Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL MNOP QRSD| Sometimes I'd spend the whole night coughing up | A |
| what I'd been breathing in all day at work | B |
| I'd sleep in a chair or take a good stiff drink | C |
| anything to get a few hours rest | D |
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| The doctor called it asthma and suggested | E |
| I find a different line of work as if | F |
| a man who had no land or education | G |
| could find himself another way to live | H |
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| For that advice I paid a half day's wage | I |
| Who said advice is cheap It got so bad | J |
| each time I got a break at work I'd find | K |
| the closest window try to catch a breath | L |
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| My foreman was a decent man who knew | M |
| I would not last much longer on that job | N |
| He got me transferred out of the card room | O |
| let me load the boxcars in the yard | P |
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| But even though I slept more I'd still wake | Q |
| gasping for air at least one time a night | R |
| and when I dreamed I dreamed of bumper crops | S |
| of Carolina cotton in my chest | D |
Ron Rash
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