Pin And Needle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFBBBBGGHI JJ B B KKLLKK BBMMBBKKNNKK| A pin which long had done its duty | A |
| Attendant on a reigning beauty | A |
| Had held her muffler fixed her hair | B |
| And made its mistress debonnaire | B |
| Now near her heart in honour placed | C |
| Now banished to the rear disgraced | C |
| From whence as partners of her shame | D |
| She saw the lovers served the same | D |
| From whence thro' various turns of life | E |
| She saw its comforts and its strife | E |
| With tailors warm with beggars cold | F |
| Or clutched within a miser's hold | F |
| His maxim racked her wearied ear | B |
| A pin a day's a groat a year | B |
| Restored to freedom by the proctor | B |
| She paid some visits with a doctor | B |
| She pinned a bandage that was crossed | G |
| And thence at Gresham Hall was lost | G |
| Charmed with its wonders she admires | H |
| And now of this now that inquires | I |
| 'Twas plain in noticing her mind | J |
| She was of virtuoso kind | J |
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| What's this thing in this box dear sir | B |
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| A needle said the interpreter | B |
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| A needle shut up in a box | K |
| Good gracious me why sure it locks | K |
| And why is it beside that flint | L |
| I could give her now a good hint | L |
| If she were handed to a sempstress | K |
| She would hem more and she would clem less | K |
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| Pin said the needle cease to blunder | B |
| Stupid alike your hints and wonder | B |
| This is a loadstone and its virtue | M |
| Though insufficient to convert you | M |
| Makes me a magnet and afar | B |
| True am I to my polar star | B |
| The pilot leaves the doubtful skies | K |
| And trusts to me with watchful eyes | K |
| By me the distant world is known | N |
| And both the Indies made our own | N |
| I am the friend and guide of sailors | K |
| And you of sempstresses and tailors | K |
John Gay
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