The Weaver Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD BEBEBE FBFBFB GHGHGH IAIAIA| All day all day round the clacking net | A |
| The weaver's fingers fly | B |
| Gray dreams like frozen mists are set | A |
| In the hush of the weaver's eye | B |
| A voice from the dusk is calling yet | A |
| Oh come away or we die | B |
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| Without is a horror of hosts that fight | C |
| That rest not and cease not to kill | D |
| The thunder of feet and the cry of the flight | C |
| A slaughter weird and shrill | D |
| Gray dreams are set in the weaver's sight | C |
| The weaver is weaving still | D |
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| Come away dear soul come away or we die | B |
| Hear'st thou the moan and the rush Come away | E |
| The people are slain at the gates and they fly | B |
| The kind God hath left them this day | E |
| The battle axes cleaves and the foemen cry | B |
| And the red swords swing and slay | E |
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| Nay wife what boots to fly from pain | F |
| When pain is wherever we fly | B |
| And death is a sweeter thing than a chain | F |
| 'Tis sweeter to sleep than to cry | B |
| The kind God giveth the days that wane | F |
| If the kind God hath said it I die | B |
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| And the weaver wove and the good wife fled | G |
| And the city was made a tomb | H |
| And a flame that shook from the rocks overhead | G |
| Shone into that silent room | H |
| And touched like a wide red kiss on the dead | G |
| Brown weaver slain by his loom | H |
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| Yet I think that in some dim shadowy land | I |
| Where no suns rise or set | A |
| Where the ghost of a whilom loom doth stand | I |
| Round the dusk of its silken net | A |
| Forever flyeth his shadowy hand | I |
| And the weaver is weaving yet | A |
Archibald Lampman
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