The Old Labourer. (from The Villager's Verse-book.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH| Are you not tired you poor old man | A |
| The drops are on your brow | B |
| Your labour with the sun began | A |
| And you are labouring now | B |
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| I murmur not to dig the soil | C |
| For I have heard it read | D |
| That man by industry and toil | C |
| Must eat his daily bread | D |
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| The lark awakes me with his song | E |
| That hails the morning gray | F |
| And when I mourn for human wrong | E |
| I think of God and pray | F |
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| Let worldlings waste their time and health | G |
| And try each vain delight | H |
| They cannot buy with all their wealth | G |
| The labourer's rest at night | H |
William Lisle Bowles
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