The Lady With The Sewing-machine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CC DD EE FF GG HH ID JJ KK LL MM| Across the fields as green as spinach | A |
| Cropped as close as Time to Greenwich | B |
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| Stands a high house if at all | C |
| Spring comes like a Paisley shawl | C |
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| Patternings meticulous | D |
| And youthfully ridiculous | D |
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| In each room the yellow sun | E |
| Shakes like a canary run | E |
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| On run roulade and watery trill | F |
| Yellow meaningless and shrill | F |
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| Face as white as any clock's | G |
| Cased in parsley dark curled locks | G |
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| All day long you sit and sew | H |
| Stitch life down for fear it grow | H |
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| Stitch life down for fear we guess | I |
| At the hidden ugliness | D |
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| Dusty voice that throbs with heat | J |
| Hoping with your steel thin beat | J |
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| To put stitches in my mind | K |
| Make it tidy make it kind | K |
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| You shall not I'll keep it free | L |
| Though you turn earth sky and sea | L |
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| To a patchwork quilt to keep | M |
| Your mind snug and warm in sleep | M |
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
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