The Pale Operator Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF CGCG HIHJ KLKL| If but with my pen I could draw him | A |
| With terror you'd look in his face | B |
| For he since the first day I saw him | A |
| Has sat there and sewed in his place | B |
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| Years pass in procession unending | C |
| And ever the pale one is seen | D |
| As over his work he sits bending | C |
| And fights with the soulless machine | D |
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| I feel as I gaze at each feature | E |
| Perspiring and grimy and wan | F |
| It is not the strength of the creature | E |
| The will only urges him on | F |
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| And ever the sweat drops are flowing | C |
| They fall o'er his thin cheek in streams | G |
| They water the stuff he is sewing | C |
| And soak themselves into the seams | G |
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| How long shall the wheel yet I pray you | H |
| Be chased by the pale artisan | I |
| And what shall the ending be say you | H |
| Resolve the dark riddle who can | J |
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| I know that it cannot be reckoned | K |
| But one thing the future will show | L |
| When this man has vanished a second | K |
| Will sit in his place there and sew | L |
Morris Rosenfeld
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