An Enigma Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB CCCDDC EEFCCF CCCGGC HHICCI| A needle small as small can be | A |
| In bulk and use surpasses me | A |
| Nor is my purchase dear | B |
| For little and almost for nought | C |
| As many of my kind are bought | C |
| As days are in the year | B |
| - | |
| Yet though but little use we boast | C |
| And are procured at little cost | C |
| The labour is not light | C |
| Nor few artificers it asks | D |
| All skilful in their several tasks | D |
| To fashion us aright | C |
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| One fuses metal o er the fire | E |
| A second draws it into wire | E |
| The shears another plies | F |
| Who clips in length the brazen thread | C |
| From him who chafing every shred | C |
| Gives all an equal size | F |
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| A fifth prepares exact and round | C |
| The knob with which it must be crown d | C |
| His follower makes it fast | C |
| And with his mallet and his file | G |
| To shape the point employs awhile | G |
| The seventh and the last | C |
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| Now therefore dipus declare | H |
| What creature wonderful and rare | H |
| A process that obtains | I |
| Its purpose with so much ado | C |
| At last produces tell me true | C |
| And take me for your pains | I |
William Cowper
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