Man And Lathe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDAA EEFFAAG HHIIB DD BBEEJJBB| I'm standing at my lathe all day | A |
| And this is what I hear it say | A |
| 'The best of you the best of me | B |
| Are needed now across the sea | B |
| We do not hear the cannon roar | C |
| No aeroplane comes sailing o'er | D |
| Our heads and yet from day to day | A |
| We two are soldiers in the fray | A |
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| 'Oh hand that guides me now be true | E |
| A mighty task is mine to do | E |
| 'Tis time to shape and cut the steel | F |
| With every turning of my wheel | F |
| I'm building for that better day | A |
| When tyranny shall pass away | A |
| Speed up Speed up This thing I make | G |
| May save a thousand lives at stake ' | - |
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| I whisper to my lathe 'Be strong | H |
| We toil today to right a wrong | H |
| Some of us march fife and drum | I |
| My music is your busy hum | I |
| And this the hymn you sing to me | B |
| Always 'My Country 'Tis of Thee ' | - |
| This very day this very hour | D |
| We'll serve the flag with all our power | D |
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| 'Oh lathe of mine across the sea | B |
| They need the work of you and me | B |
| They will be fine if we be true | E |
| They'll hold the line if we but do | E |
| This task that now to us is set | J |
| Let's keep the faith and not forget | J |
| Speed up Speed up Across the sea | B |
| Our soldiers wait on you and me' | B |
Edgar Albert Guest
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