The Secret Of The Machines Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEDE FGFG HIHIJKJK LALA MNMNOPOP QRQR FSTSUVUV WXWY| Modern Machinery | A |
| We were taken from the ore bed and the mine | B |
| We were melted in the furnace and the pit | C |
| We were cast and wrought and hammered to design | B |
| We were cut and filed and tooled and gauged to fit | C |
| Some water coal and oil is all we ask | D |
| And a thousandth of an inch to give us play | E |
| And now if you will set us to our task | D |
| We will serve you four and twenty hours a day | E |
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| We can pull and haul and push and lift and drive | F |
| We can print and plough and weave and heat and light | G |
| We can run and race and swim and fly and dive | F |
| We can see and hear and count and read and write | G |
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| Would you call a friend from half across the world | H |
| If you'll let us have his name and town and state | I |
| You shall see and hear your cracking question hurled | H |
| Across the arch of heaven while you wait | I |
| Has he answered Does he need you at his side | J |
| You can start this very evening if you choose | K |
| And take the Western Ocean in the stride | J |
| O seventy thousand horses and some screws | K |
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| The boat express is waiting your command | L |
| You will find the Mauritania at the quay | A |
| Till her captain turns the lever 'neath his hand | L |
| And the monstrouos nine decked city goes to sea | A |
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| Do you wish to make the mountains bare their head | M |
| And lay their new cut forests at your feet | N |
| Do you want to turn a river in its bed | M |
| Or plant a barren wilderness with wheat | N |
| Shall we pipe aloft and bring you water down | O |
| From the never failing cisterns of the snows | P |
| To work the mills and tramways in your town | O |
| And irrigate your orchards as it flows | P |
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| It is easy Give us dynamite and drills | Q |
| Watch the iron shouldered rocks lie down and quake | R |
| As the thirsty desert level floods and fills | Q |
| And the valley we have dammed becomes a lake | R |
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| But remember please the Law by which we live | F |
| We are not built to comprehend a lie | S |
| We can neither love nor pity nor forgive | T |
| If you make a slip in handling us you die | S |
| We are greater than the Peoples or the Kings | U |
| Be humble as you crawl beneath our rods | V |
| Our touch can alter all created things | U |
| We are everything on earth except The Gods | V |
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| Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes | W |
| It will vanish and the stars will shine again | X |
| Because for all our power and weight and size | W |
| We are nothing more than children of your brain | Y |
Rudyard Kipling
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