Winding Wool Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFBGBA HFHFDGDA| She'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 |
| - | |
| 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 William Service
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