Lines Written In Hospital Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEAA FAFAGG HIHIJUpon a snowy bed I lie | A |
Too placid to complain | B |
And watch the mad world rushing by | A |
Beyond my window pane | B |
The traffic threading in and out | C |
And wonder what it's all about | C |
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I watch the loaded tramcars stream | D |
By dozens into town | E |
With men each thinking of some scheme | D |
To take his neighbour down | E |
Each woman wond'ring what she'll buy | A |
At Frill and Fluffum's bye and bye | A |
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Down in the street I hear the talk | F |
Of people passing by | A |
They chatter chatter as they walk | F |
Of all thins 'neath the sky | A |
Of trade of sport of foolish things | G |
That lack of clear reflection brings | G |
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Placid I said I was but no | H |
For all this seems to me | I |
This madly rushing to and fro | H |
Just sheer futility | I |
And as I choke with rising wrath | J |
The nurse says 'Time to take your broth ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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