Idleness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BCBC DBBB ECEC FGHG IJIJ BKBK ACAC| O idleness too fond of me | A |
| Begone I know and hate thee | A |
| Nothing canst thou of pleasure see | A |
| In one that so doth rate thee | A |
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| For empty are both mind and heart | B |
| While thou with me dost linger | C |
| More profit would to thee impart | B |
| A babe that sucks its finger | C |
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| I know thou hast a better way | D |
| To spend these hours thou squand'rest | B |
| Some lad toils in the trough to day | B |
| Who groans because thou wand'rest | B |
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| A bleating sheep he dowses now | E |
| Or wrestles with ram's terror | C |
| Ah 'mid the washing's hubbub how | E |
| His sighs reproach thine error | C |
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| He knows and loves thee Idleness | F |
| For when his sheep are browsing | G |
| His open eyes enchant and bless | H |
| A mind divinely drowsing | G |
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| No slave to sleep he wills and sees | I |
| From hill lawns the brown tillage | J |
| Green winding lanes and clumps of trees | I |
| Far town or nearer village | J |
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| The sea itself the fishing feet | B |
| Where more thine idle lovers | K |
| Heark'ning to sea mews find thee sweet | B |
| Like him who hears the plovers | K |
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| Begone those haul their ropes at sea | A |
| These plunge sheep in yon river | C |
| Free free from toil thy friends and me | A |
| From Idleness deliver | C |
Thomas Sturge Moore
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