Idleness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFGHDIJEKLMBNOP QGRSTUJVW| I saw old Idleness fat with great cheeks | A |
| Puffed to the huge circumference of a sigh | B |
| But past all tinge of apples long ago | C |
| His boyish fingers twiddled up and down | D |
| The filthy remnant of a cup of physic | C |
| That thicked in odour all the while he stayed | E |
| His eyes were sad as fishes that swim up | F |
| And stare upon an element not theirs | G |
| Through a thin skin of shrewish water then | H |
| Turn on a languid fin and dip down down | D |
| Into unplumbed vast oozy deeps of dream | I |
| His stomach was his master and proclaimed it | J |
| And never were such meagre puppets made | E |
| The slaves of such a tyrant as his thoughts | K |
| Of that obese epitome of ills | L |
| Trussed up he sat the mockery of himself | M |
| And when upon the wan green of his eye | B |
| I marked the gathering lustre of a tear | N |
| Thought I myself must weep until I caught | O |
| A grey smug smile of satisfaction smirch | P |
| His pallid features at his misery | Q |
| And laugh did I to see the little snares | G |
| He had set for pests to vex him his great feet | R |
| Prisoned in greater boots so narrow a stool | S |
| To seat such elephantine parts as his | T |
| Ay and the book he read a Hebrew Bible | U |
| And to incite a gross and backward wit | J |
| An old crabbed wormed Greek dictionary and | V |
| A foxy Ovid bound in dappled calf | W |
Walter De La Mare
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