City Roofs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF AAGG AAHH| Roof tops roof tops what do you cover | A |
| Sad folk bad folk and many a glowing lover | A |
| Wise people simple people children of despair | B |
| Roof tops roof tops hiding pain and care | B |
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| Roof tops roof tops O what sin you're knowing | C |
| While above you in the sky the white clouds are blowing | C |
| While beneath you agony and dolor and grim strife | D |
| Fight the olden battle the olden war of Life | D |
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| Roof tops roof tops cover up their shame | E |
| Wretched souls prisoned souls too piteous to name | E |
| Man himself hath built you all to hide away the stars | F |
| Roof tops roof tops you hide ten million scars | F |
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| Roof tops roof tops well I know you cover | A |
| Many solemn tragedies and many a lonely lover | A |
| But ah you hide the good that lives in the throbbing city | G |
| Patient wives and tenderness forgiveness faith and pity | G |
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| Roof tops roof tops this is what I wonder | A |
| You are thick as poisonous plants thick the people under | A |
| Yet roofless and homeless and shelterless they roam | H |
| The driftwood of the town who have no roof top and no home | H |
Charles Hanson Towne
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