Winding Wool Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFBGBA HFHFDGDAShe'd bring to me a skein of wool | A |
And beg me to hold out my hands | B |
so on my pipe I cease to pull | A |
And watch her twine the shining strands | B |
Into a ball so snug and neat | C |
Perchance a pair of socks to knit | D |
To comfort my unworthy feet | C |
Or pullover my girth to fit | D |
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As to the winding I would sway | E |
A poem in my head would sing | F |
And I would watch in dreamy way | E |
The bright yarn swiftly slendering | F |
The best I liked were coloured strands | B |
I let my pensive pipe grow cool | G |
Two active and two passive hands | B |
So busy wining shining wool | A |
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Alas Two of those hands are cold | H |
And in these days of wrath and wrong | F |
I am so wearyful and old | H |
I wonder if I've lived too long | F |
So in my loneliness I sit | D |
And dream of sweet domestic rule | G |
When gentle women used to knit | D |
And men were happy winding wool | A |
Robert Service
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