Sweeping The Floor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF CDCD| Sweep and sweep and sweep the floor | A |
| Sweep the dust pick up the pin | B |
| Make it clean from fire to door | A |
| Clean for father to come in | B |
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| Mother said that God goes sweeping | C |
| Looking sweeping with a broom | D |
| All the time that we are sleeping | C |
| For a shilling in the room | D |
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| Did he drop it out of glory | E |
| Walking far above the birds | F |
| Or did parson make the story | E |
| For the thinking afterwards | F |
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| If I were the swept for shilling | C |
| I would hearken through the gloom | D |
| Roll out fast and fall down willing | C |
| Right before the sweeping broom | D |
George Macdonald
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