The Songs Of The Lathes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEFFD AAEC GGGC AAGC HHDC GGIC JKGC AALC DEFFD| The fans and the beltings they roar round me | A |
| The power is shaking the floor round me | A |
| Till the lathes pick up their duty and the midnight shift takes over | B |
| It is good for me to be here | C |
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| Guns in Flanders Flanders guns | D |
| I had a man that worked 'em once | E |
| Shells for guns in Flanders Flanders | F |
| Shells for guns in Flanders Flanders | F |
| Shells for guns in Flanders Feeds the guns | D |
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| The cranes and the carriers they boom over me | A |
| The bays and the galleries they loom over me | A |
| With their quarter mile of pillars growing little in the distance | E |
| It is good for me to be here | C |
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| The Zeppelins and Gothas they raid over us | G |
| Our lights give warning and fade over us | G |
| Seven thousand women keeping quiet in the darkness | G |
| Oh it's good for me to be here | C |
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| The roofs and the buildings they grow round me | A |
| Eating up the fields I used to know round me | A |
| And the shed that I began in is a sub inspector's office | G |
| So long have I been here | C |
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| I've seen six hundred mornings make our lamps grow dim | H |
| Through the bit that isn't painted round our sky light rim | H |
| And the sunshine through the window slope according to the seasons | D |
| Twice since I've been here | C |
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| The trains on the sidings they call to us | G |
| With the hundred thousand blanks that they haul to us | G |
| And we send 'em what we've finished and they take it where it's wanted | I |
| For that is why we are here | C |
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| Man's hate passes as his love will pass | J |
| God made Woman what she always was | K |
| Them that bear the burden they will never grant forgiveness | G |
| So long as they are here | C |
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| Once I was a woman but that's by with me | A |
| All I loved and looked for it must die with me | A |
| But the Lord has left me over for a servant of the Judgment | L |
| And I serve His Judgments here | C |
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| Guns in Flanders Flanders guns | D |
| I had a son that worked 'em once | E |
| Shells for guns in Flanders Flanders | F |
| Shells for guns in Flanders Flanders | F |
| Shells for guns in Flanders Feeds the guns | D |
Rudyard Kipling
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