The Knitters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLGMNOPGQA RSTEFUGVU RARJ WMX UUYU FZUZ UARA| IN companies or lone | A |
| They bend their heads their hands | B |
| They busy with their gear | C |
| Accomplishing the stitch | D |
| That turns the stocking heel | E |
| Or closes up the toe | F |
| These knitters at their doors | G |
| Their talk 's of nothing else | H |
| But what was told before | I |
| Sundown and gone sundown | J |
| While goats bleat from the hill | K |
| And men are tramping home | L |
| By knitters at their doors | G |
| And we who go this way | M |
| A benediction take | N |
| From hands that ply this task | O |
| For the ten thousandth time | P |
| Of knitters at their doors | G |
| Since we who deem our days | Q |
| Most varied come to own | A |
| That all the works we do | R |
| Repeat a wonted toil | S |
| May it be done as theirs | T |
| Who turn the stocking heel | E |
| And close the stocking toe | F |
| With grace and in content | U |
| These knitters at their doors | G |
| The Charm | V |
| Uisge cloiche gan irraidh | U |
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| WATER I did not seek you | R |
| Water of hollow stone | A |
| I crossed no one's acre to find you | R |
| You were where my geese lie down | J |
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| I dip my fingers and sprinkle | W |
| While three times over I say | M |
| 'Chance bound and chance found water | X |
| Can take a numbness away ' | - |
| - | |
| The numbness that leaves me vacant | U |
| Of thought and will and deed | U |
| Like the moveless clock that I gaze on | Y |
| It will go where the ravens breed | U |
| - | |
| I empty the stone on the morrow | F |
| I shall rise with spirit alive | Z |
| Gallant amongst the gallant | U |
| I shall speak and lead and strive | Z |
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| In search there is no warrant | U |
| By chance is the charm shown | A |
| Water I did not seek you | R |
| Water of hollow stone | A |
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