The Weaver Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIHI CJCJKLKL MHMHCNCN| The patter of rain on the roof | A |
| The glint of the sun on the rose | B |
| Of life these the warp and the woof | A |
| The weaving that everyone knows | B |
| Now grief with its consequent tear | C |
| Now joy with its luminous smile | D |
| The days are the threads of the year | E |
| Is what I am weaving worth while | D |
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| What pattern have I on my loom | F |
| Shall my bit of tapestry please | G |
| Am I working with gray threads of gloom | F |
| Is there faith in the figures I seize | G |
| When my fingers are lifeless and cold | H |
| And the threads I no longer can weave | I |
| Shall there be there for men to behold | H |
| One sign of the things I believe | I |
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| God sends me the gray days and rare | C |
| The threads from his bountiful skein | J |
| And many as sunshine are fair | C |
| And some are as dark as the rain | J |
| And I think as I toil to express | K |
| My life through the days slipping by | L |
| Shall my tapestry prove a success | K |
| What sort of weaver am I | L |
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| Am I making the most of the red | M |
| And the bright strands of luminous gold | H |
| Or blotting them out with the thread | M |
| By which all men's failure is told | H |
| Am I picturing life as despair | C |
| As a thing men shall shudder to see | N |
| Or weaving a bit that is fair | C |
| That shall stand as the record of me | N |
Edgar Albert Guest
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