To A Lady Knitting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAAAACCDD AAEFGGHHGGBB BBGGIIBBGGJJ AAAAKKAAGGBB| Little woman hourly sitting | A |
| Something for a soldier knitting | A |
| What in fancy can you see | B |
| Many pictures come to me | B |
| Through the stitch that now you're making | A |
| I behold a bullet breaking | A |
| I can see some soldier lying | A |
| In that garment slowly dying | A |
| And that very bit of thread | C |
| In your fingers turns to red | C |
| Gray to day perhaps to morrow | D |
| Crimsoned by the blood of sorrow | D |
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| It may be some hero daring | A |
| Shall that very thing be wearing | A |
| When he ventures forth to give | E |
| Life that other men may live | F |
| He may braver wield the saber | G |
| As a tribute to your labor | G |
| And for that which you have knitted | H |
| Better for his task be fitted | H |
| When the thread has left your finger | G |
| Something of yourself may linger | G |
| Something of your lovely beauty | B |
| May sustain him in his duty | B |
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| Some one's boy that was a baby | B |
| Soon shall wear it and it may be | B |
| He will write and tell his mother | G |
| Of the kindness of another | G |
| And her spirit shall caress you | I |
| And her prayers at night shall bless you | I |
| You may never know its story | B |
| Cannot know the grief or glory | B |
| That are destined now and hover | G |
| Over him your wool shall cover | G |
| Nor what spirit shall invade it | J |
| Once your gentle hands have made it | J |
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| Little woman hourly sitting | A |
| Something for a soldier knitting | A |
| 'Tis no common garb you're making | A |
| These no common pains you're taking | A |
| Something lovely holy lingers | K |
| O'er the needles in your fingers | K |
| And with every stitch you're weaving | A |
| Something of yourself you're leaving | A |
| From your gentle hands and tender | G |
| There may come a nation's splendor | G |
| And from this your simple duty | B |
| Life may win a fairer beauty | B |
Edgar Albert Guest
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