The Dustman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEAA FGHG AGIG AJAK ALML ANON APQP ARSR GLBL TEAA| Dustman dustman | A |
| Through the deserted square he cries | B |
| And babies put their rosy fists | C |
| Into their eyes | B |
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| There's nothing out of No man's land | D |
| So drowsy since the world began | E |
| As Dustman dustman | A |
| Dustman | A |
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| He goes his village round at dusk | F |
| From door to door from day to day | G |
| And when the children hear his step | H |
| They stop their play | G |
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| Dustman dustman | A |
| Far up the street he is descried | G |
| And soberly the twilight games | I |
| Are laid aside | G |
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| Dustman dustman | A |
| There Drowsyhead the old refrain | J |
| Dustman dustman | A |
| It goes again | K |
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| Dustman dustman | A |
| Hurry by and let me sleep | L |
| When most I wish for you to come | M |
| You always creep | L |
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| Dustman dustman | A |
| And when I want to play some more | N |
| You never then are further off | O |
| Than the next door | N |
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| Dustman dustman | A |
| He heckles down the echoing curb | P |
| A step that neither hopes nor hates | Q |
| Ever disturb | P |
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| Dustman dustman | A |
| He never varies from one pace | R |
| And the monotony of time | S |
| Is in his face | R |
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| And some day with more potent dust | G |
| Brought from his home beyond the deep | L |
| And gently scattered on our eyes | B |
| We too shall sleep | L |
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| Hearing the call we know so well | T |
| Fade softly out as it began | E |
| Dustman dustman | A |
| Dustman | A |
Bliss Carman (william)
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