Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCC DEC CCC CFG HIC JAK LMN| Gesang ist Dasein | A |
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| A small thing done well the steel bit paring | B |
| the cut end of the collar lifting delicate | C |
| blue spirals of iron slowly out of lamplight | C |
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| into darkness until they broke and fell | D |
| into a pool of oil and water below | E |
| A small thing done well my father said | C |
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| so often that I tired of hearing it and lost | C |
| myself in the shop's north end an underworld | C |
| of welders who wore black masks and stared | C |
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| through smoked glass where all was midnight | C |
| except the purest spark the blue white arc | F |
| of the clamp and rod Hammers made dull tunes | G |
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| hacking slag and acetylene flames cast shadows | H |
| of men against the tin roof like great birds | I |
| trapped in diminishing circles of light | C |
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| Each day was like another I stood beside him | J |
| and watched the lathe spin on coils of iron | A |
| climbing into dusk the file's drone the rasp | K |
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| and finally the honing cloth with its small song | L |
| of things done well that I would carry into sleep | M |
| and dreams of men with wings of fire and steel | N |
B H Fairchild
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