Pen And Shears Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DDDD DEDE DDDD FBGB| My tailor's shears I scorned then | A |
| I strove for something higher | B |
| To edit news live by the pen | A |
| The pen that shall not tire | B |
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| The pen that was my humble slave | C |
| Has now enslaved its master | B |
| And fast as flows its Midas wave | C |
| My rebel tears flow faster | B |
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| The world I clad once tailor hired | D |
| Whilst I in tatters quaked | D |
| Today you see me well attired | D |
| Who lets the world go naked | D |
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| What human soul how'er oppressed | D |
| Can feel my chained soul's yearning | E |
| A monster woe lies in my breast | D |
| In voiceless anguish burning | E |
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| Oh swing ajar the shop door do | D |
| I'll bear as ne'er I bore it | D |
| My blood you sweatshop leeches you | D |
| Now less I'll blame you for it | D |
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| I'll stitch as ne'er in former years | F |
| I'll drive the mad wheel faster | B |
| Slave will I be but to the shears | G |
| The pen shall know its master | B |
Morris Rosenfeld
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