Knitting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDDBE FBBFEEGGBE HBBHEEIIBE| At the concert and the play | A |
| Everywhere you see them sitting | B |
| Knitting knitting | B |
| Women who the other day | A |
| Thought of nothing but their frocks | C |
| Or their jewels or their locks | C |
| Women who have lived for pleasure | D |
| Who have known no work but leisure | D |
| Now are knitting knitting knitting | B |
| For the soldiers over there | E |
| - | |
| On the trains and on the ships | F |
| With a diligence befitting | B |
| They are knitting | B |
| Some with smiles upon their lips | F |
| Some with manners debonair | E |
| Some with earnest look and air | E |
| But each heart in its own fashion | G |
| Weaves in pity and compassion | G |
| In their knitting knitting knitting | B |
| For the soldiers over there | E |
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| Hurried women to and fro | H |
| From their homes to labour flitting | B |
| Knitting knitting | B |
| Busy handed come and go | H |
| Broken bits of time they spare | E |
| Just to feel they do their share | E |
| Just to keep life's sense of beauty | I |
| In the doing of a duty | I |
| They are knitting knitting knitting | B |
| For the soldiers over there | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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