The Yellow Gas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BCBC ADAD CACA EFEF GCGC ACAC ECEC AHAH| The yellow gas is fired from street to street | A |
| past rows of heartless homes and hearths unlit | A |
| dead churches and the unending pavement beat | A |
| by crowds say rather haggard shades that flit | A |
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| round nightly haunts of their delusive dream | B |
| where'er our paradisal instinct starves | C |
| till on the utmost post its sinuous gleam | B |
| crawls in the oily water of the wharves | C |
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| where Homer's sea loses his keen breath hemm'd | A |
| what place rebellious piles were driven down | D |
| the priestlike waters to this task condemn'd | A |
| to wash the roots of the inhuman town | D |
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| where fat and strange eyed fish that never saw | C |
| the outer deep broad halls of sapphire light | A |
| glut in the city's draught each nameless maw | C |
| and there wide eyed unto the soulless night | A |
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| methinks a drown'd maid's face might fitly show | E |
| what we have slain a life that had been free | F |
| clean large nor thus tormented even so | E |
| as are the skies the salt winds and the sea | F |
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| Ay we had saved our days and kept them whole | G |
| to whom no part in our old joy remains | C |
| had felt those bright winds sweeping thro' our soul | G |
| and all the keen sea tumbling in our veins | C |
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| had thrill'd to harps of sunrise when the height | A |
| whitens and dawn dissolves in virgin tears | C |
| or caught across the hush'd ambrosial night | A |
| the choral music of the swinging spheres | C |
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| or drunk the silence if nought else But no | E |
| and from each rotting soul distill in dreams | C |
| a poison o'er the old earth creeping slow | E |
| that kills the flowers and curdles the live streams | C |
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| that taints the fresh breath of re risen day | A |
| and reeks across the pale bewildered moon | H |
| shall we be cleans'd and how I only pray | A |
| red flame or deluge may that end be soon | H |
Christopher John Brennan
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