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Still, it's not a huge industry. There are between 5,000 and 10,000 blacksmiths in the U.S., and of those, only about 10 percent do it professionally â they make things like custom railings or artistic hardware for homes. Back in the classroom, Scott Higgins is learning to punch a hole in metal.
Analysis. The Village Blacksmith poem is, essentially, a praise to those who do hard-work but it goes unnoticed. They are people, they wake up in the morning, go to bed at night, and even go to church on Sunday, but people don't realize how much hard-work goes into their job. This poem is dedicated to them. The Village Blacksmith contains eight stanzas with six lines each for a total of 55 lines. The rhyme scheme for each stanza is ABABCB in the first stanza and ABCBDB in the others.