On Charles Lamb's Sonnet, "work." Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFEF| Who first invented work asks Elia he | A |
| Whose life to an ungenial task was wed | B |
| And answers Satan but it could not be | A |
| On idleness his foul ambition fed | B |
| By idleness the heavenly domiciles | C |
| Were lost to him and all his idle crew | D |
| In idleness he hatches all his wiles | C |
| And mischief finds for idle hands to do | D |
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| His business ever was to scamp and shirk | E |
| And scout the task that too ignoble seemed | F |
| And in snug corners serpentlike to lurk | E |
| Where no one of his presence ever dreamed | F |
| He never knew the zest of honest work | E |
| Nor ever shall or he would be redeemed | F |
W. M. Mackeracher
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