City Contrasts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGHGIBJB KLMLANON APQPIRCC SETEUVWV XIGICYCY CZCZA2B2CB2 C2ND2NCE2CF2 AG2H2G2CI2J2I2| A barefooted child on the crossing | A |
| Sweeping the mud away | B |
| A lady in silks and diamonds | C |
| Proud of the vain display | B |
| A beggar blind on the curbstone | D |
| A rich man passing along | E |
| A tiny child with a tambourine | F |
| Wailing out her life in song | E |
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| A pauper in lone hearse passing | A |
| Hurried away to the tomb | G |
| A train of carriages music grand | H |
| And the flutter of waving plume | G |
| For the one there is never a mourner | I |
| He cumbered the earth alway | B |
| For the other the flags at half mast droop | J |
| And the city wears black today | B |
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| A soldier with one sleeve empty | K |
| That sadly hangs by his side | L |
| Another shuffling along the walk | M |
| In the flush of health and pride | L |
| A cripple girl slowly toiling | A |
| Through the vexed and crowded street | N |
| And tearfully gazing at those who pass | O |
| With hearts as light as their feet | N |
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| A wreck of a woman flaunting | A |
| As if proud of her very shame | P |
| A purer sister whose modest cheeks | Q |
| Would crimson e'en at the name | P |
| A petty thief stealing in terror | I |
| Afraid in your face to gaze | R |
| And one who has robbed by the thousands | C |
| Courting the sun's broad blaza | C |
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| The millionaire in his carriage | S |
| The workman plodding along | E |
| The humble follower of the right | T |
| And the slave of the giant wrong | E |
| The murderer seeking a refuge | U |
| Looking ever wearily back | V |
| And the sleuth hounds of the broken law | W |
| Following silently in his track | V |
| - | |
| The judge freed now of the ermine | X |
| Pompous of place and power | I |
| And the shivering wretch his word will doom | G |
| To prison within an hour | I |
| The miser clutching his pennies | C |
| The spendthrift squandering gold | Y |
| The meeked eyed Sister of Mercy | C |
| And the woman brazen and bold | Y |
| - | |
| The widow in weeds of blackness | C |
| Meets the bride at the church door | Z |
| The future for one holds nothing but tears | C |
| But joy for the other in store | Z |
| A cradle jostles a coffin | A2 |
| Orange flowers with honeyed breath | B2 |
| Are wove by the self same fingers | C |
| That but now made a cross for death | B2 |
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| Dives and Lazarus elbow | C2 |
| Each other whene'er they meet | N |
| And the crumbs from the rich man's table | D2 |
| Feed the beggar upon the street | N |
| And penury crowdeth plenty | C |
| And sin stalks boldly abroad | E2 |
| And the infidel holds his head proudly | C |
| As the child of the living God | F2 |
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| The bee in its ceaseless searching | A |
| Finds sweets in each flower fair | G2 |
| And the noisome spider creeping up | H2 |
| Finds nothing but poison there | G2 |
| And so life is made up of contrasts | C |
| Rich and poor coward and brave | I2 |
| Virtue and vice and all will find | J2 |
| Equality in the grave | I2 |
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