The Magnet And The Churn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFEGGE HHIIJJKKFFELLE| A MAGNET hung in a hardware shop | A |
| And all around was a loving crop | A |
| Of scissors and needles nails and knives | B |
| Offering love for all their lives | C |
| But for iron the Magnet felt no whim | D |
| Though he charmed iron it charmed not him | D |
| From needles and nails and knives he'd turn | E |
| For he'd set his love on a Silver Churn | E |
| His most aesthetic | F |
| Very magnetic | F |
| Fancy took this turn | E |
| If I can wheedle | G |
| A knife or needle | G |
| Why not a Silver Churn | E |
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| And Iron and Steel expressed surprise | H |
| The needles opened their well drilled eyes | H |
| The pen knives felt shut up no doubt | I |
| The scissors declared themselves cut out | I |
| The kettles they boiled with rage 'tis said | J |
| While every nail went off its head | J |
| And hither and thither began to roam | K |
| Till a hammer came up and drove it home | K |
| While this magnetic | F |
| Peripatetic | F |
| Lover he lived to learn | E |
| By no endeavour | L |
| Can Magnet ever | L |
| Attract a Silver Churn | E |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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