Song Of The Sewing-machine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH EHEHECEC AIAIEJEJ KHKHALAL| I'm the Iron Needle Woman | A |
| Wrought of sterner stuff than clay | B |
| And unlike the drudges human | A |
| Never weary night or day | B |
| Never shedding tears of sorrow | C |
| Never mourning friends untrue | D |
| Never caring for the morrow | C |
| Never begging work to do | D |
| - | |
| Poverty brings no disaster | E |
| Merrily I glide along | F |
| For no thankless sordid master | E |
| Ever seeks to do me wrong | F |
| No extortioners oppress me | G |
| No insulting words I dread | H |
| I've no children to distress me | G |
| With unceasing cries for bread | H |
| - | |
| I'm of hardy form and feature | E |
| For endurance framed aright | H |
| I'm not pale misfortune's creature | E |
| Doomed life's battle here to fight | H |
| Mine's a song of cheerful measure | E |
| And no under currents flow | C |
| To destroy the throb of pleasure | E |
| Which the poor so seldom know | C |
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| In the hall I hold my station | A |
| With the wealthy ones of earth | I |
| Who commend me to the nation | A |
| For economy and worth | I |
| While unpaid the female labor | E |
| In the attic chamber lone | J |
| Where the smile of friend or neighbor | E |
| Never for a moment shone | J |
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| My creation is a blessing | K |
| To the indigent secured | H |
| Banishing the cares distressing | K |
| Which so many have endured | H |
| Mine are sinews superhuman | A |
| Ribs of oak and nerves of steel | L |
| I'm the Iron Needle Woman | A |
| Born to toil and not to feel | L |
George Pope Morris
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