A Vision In The Strand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCDEFEG HHHHF IJIJKL IMIMII AIAIAIKN OIOIPPQRSQQMIIII CCTTII IUIUVWIIDIDII XYZYA2B2A2B2C2OC2OC2 C2YC2YID2ID2E2E2The jaded light of late July | A |
Shone yellow down the dusty Strand | B |
The anxious people bustled by | A |
Policeman Pressman you and I | A |
And thieves and judges of the land | B |
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So swift they strode they had not time | C |
To mark the humours of the Town | D |
But I that mused an idle rhyme | C |
Looked here and there and up and down | D |
And many a rapid cart I spied | E |
That drew as fast as ponies can | F |
The Newspapers of either side | E |
These joys of every Englishman | G |
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The Standard here the Echo there | H |
And cultured ev'ning papers fair | H |
With din and fuss and shout and blare | H |
Through all the eager land they bare | H |
The rumours of our little span | F |
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'Midst these but ah more slow of speed | I |
A biggish box of sanguine hue | J |
Was tugged on a velocipede | I |
And in and out the crowd and through | J |
An earnest stripling urged it well | K |
Perched on a cranky tricycle | L |
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A seedy tricycle he rode | I |
Perchance some three miles in the hour | M |
But on the big red box that glowed | I |
Behind him was a name of Power | M |
JUSTICE I read it e'er I wist | I |
THE ORGAN OF THE SOCIALIST | I |
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The paper carts fled fleetly by | A |
And vanished up the roaring Strand | I |
And eager purchasers drew nigh | A |
Each with his penny in his hand | I |
But JUSTICE scarce more fleet than I | A |
Began to permeate the land | I |
And dark methinks the twilight fell | K |
Or ever JUSTICE reached Pall Mall | N |
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Oh Man I stopped to moralize | O |
How eager thou to fight with Fate | I |
To bring Astraea from the skies | O |
Yet ah how too inadequate | I |
The means by which thou fain wouldst cope | P |
With Laws and Morals King and Pope | P |
JUSTICE how prompt the witling's sneer | Q |
Justice Thou wouldst have Justice here | R |
And each poor man should be a squire | S |
Each with his competence a year | Q |
Each with sufficient beef and beer | Q |
And all things matched to his desire | M |
While all the Middle Classes should | I |
With every vile Capitalist | I |
Be clean reformed away for good | I |
And vanish like a morning mist | I |
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Ah splendid Vision golden time | C |
An end of hunger cold and crime | C |
An end of Rent an end of Rank | T |
An end of balance at the Bank | T |
An end of everything that's meant | I |
To bring Investors five per cent | I |
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How fair doth Justice seem I cried | I |
Yet oh how strong the embattled powers | U |
That war against on every side | I |
Justice and this great dream of ours | U |
And what have we to plead our cause | V |
'Gainst Masters Capital and laws | W |
What but a big red box indeed | I |
With copies of a weekly screed | I |
That's slowly jolted up and down | D |
Behind an old velocipede | I |
To clamour JUSTICE through the town | D |
How touchingly inadequate | I |
These arms wherewith we'd vanquish Fate | I |
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Nay the old Order shall endure | X |
And little change the years shall know | Y |
And still the Many shall be poor | Z |
And still the Poor shall dwell in woe | Y |
Firm in the iron Law of things | A2 |
The strong shall be the wealthy still | B2 |
And called Capitalists or Kings | A2 |
Shall seize and hoard the fruits of skill | B2 |
Leaving the weaker for their gain | C2 |
Leaving the gentler for their prize | O |
Such dens and husks as beasts disdain | C2 |
Till slowly from the wrinkled skies | O |
The fireless frozen Sun shall wane | C2 |
Nor Summer come with golden grain | C2 |
Till men be glad mid frost and snow | Y |
To live such equal lives of pain | C2 |
As now the hutted Eskimo | Y |
Then none shall plough nor garner seed | I |
Then on some last sad human shore | D2 |
Equality shall reign indeed | I |
The Rich shall be with us no more | D2 |
Thus and not otherwise shall come | E2 |
The new the true Millennium | E2 |
Andrew Lang
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