Fleet Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CCDC EEFE GHFH IIJI KKLK MMCM FFNF| BENEATH this narrow jostling street | A |
| Unruffled by the noise of feet | A |
| Like a slow organ note I hear | B |
| The pulses of the great world beat | A |
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| Unseen beneath the city s show | C |
| Through this aorta ever flow | C |
| The currents of the universe | D |
| A thousand pulses throbbing low | C |
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| Unheard beneath the pavement s din | E |
| Unknown magicians sit within | E |
| Dim caves and weave life into words | F |
| On patient looms that spin and spin | E |
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| There uninspired yet with the dower | G |
| Of mightier mechanic power | H |
| Some bent obscure Euripides | F |
| Builds the loud drama of the hour | H |
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| There from the gaping presses hurled | I |
| A thousand voices passion whirled | I |
| With throats of steel vociferate | J |
| The incessant story of the world | I |
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| So through this artery from age | K |
| To age the tides of passion rage | K |
| The swift historians of each day | L |
| Flinging a world upon a page | K |
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| And then I pause and gaze my fill | M |
| Where cataracts of traffic spill | M |
| Their foam into the Circus Lo | C |
| Look up the crown on Ludgate Hill | M |
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| Remote from all the city s moods | F |
| In high untroubled solitudes | F |
| Like an old Buddha swathed in dream | N |
| St Paul s above the city broods | F |
Arthur Henry Adams
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