A Year's Spinning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EDEDD FDFGD HIJGD KGKGD LGLDD MMMMM| A | |
| He listened at the porch that day | B |
| To hear the wheel go on and on | C |
| And then it stopped ran back away | B |
| While through the door he brought the sun | D |
| But now my spinning is all done | D |
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| He sat beside me with an oath | E |
| That love ne'er ended once begun | D |
| I smiled believing for us both | E |
| What was the truth for only one | D |
| And now my spinning is all done | D |
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| My mother cursed me that I heard | F |
| A young man's wooing as I spun | D |
| Thanks cruel mother for that word | F |
| For I have since a harder known | G |
| And now my spinning is all done | D |
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| I thought O God my first born's cry | H |
| Both voices to mine ear would drown | I |
| I listened in mine agony | J |
| It was the silence made me groan | G |
| And now my spinning is all done | D |
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| Bury me 'twixt my mother's grave | K |
| Who cursed me on her death bed lone | G |
| And my dead baby's God it save | K |
| Who not to bless me would not moan | G |
| And now my spinning is all done | D |
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| A stone upon my heart and head | L |
| But no name written on the stone | G |
| Sweet neighbours whisper low instead | L |
| This sinner was a loving one | D |
| And now her spinning is all done | D |
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| And let the door ajar remain | M |
| In case he should pass by anon | M |
| And leave the wheel out very plain | M |
| That HE when passing in the sun | M |
| May see the spinning is all done | M |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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