Sonnet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDB FGFGHIHIJKJKLL| Three bills known as the Thompson Bewley cannery bills have been | A |
| advanced to third reading in the Senate and Assembly at Albany One | B |
| permits the canners to work their employ s seven days a week a second | C |
| allows them to work women after p m and a third removes every | D |
| restriction upon the hours of labor of women and minors Zenas L | E |
| Potter former chief cannery investigator for New York State Factory | D |
| Investigating Commission | B |
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| Let us not to an unrestricted day | F |
| Impediments admit Work is not work | G |
| To our employ s but a merry play | F |
| They do not ask the law's excuse to shirk | G |
| Ah no the canning season is at hand | H |
| When summer scents are on the air distilled | I |
| When golden fruits are ripening in the land | H |
| And silvery tins are gaping to be filled | I |
| Now to the cannery with jocund mien | J |
| Before the dawn come women girls and boys | K |
| Whose weekly hours a hundred and nineteen | J |
| Seem all too short for their industrious joys | K |
| If this be error and be proved alas | L |
| The Thompson Bewley bills may fail to pass | L |
Alice Duer Miller
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