Our Town Awakes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHIIJJ KKLLEEMMNN OOHHPPQQRR| Six o'clock From the railway yard | A |
| The engine toots careering hard | A |
| A milk cart rattles by and stops | B |
| A magpie calls from the gum tree tops | B |
| The pub 'boots' sweeping out the bar | C |
| Waves to the early service car | C |
| While the town's chief toper waits outside | D |
| Woe begone and bleary eyed | D |
| Two cows go lowing down the way | E |
| A rooster crows It's another day | E |
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| Eight o'clock The tradesmen come | F |
| Shop boys whistling masters glum | F |
| To stand at doors and stretch and yawn | G |
| Fronts are swept and blinds are drawn | G |
| The washerwoman Mrs Dubbs | H |
| Slip slops off to her taps and tubs | H |
| Washing clothes for other folk | I |
| The cheery barber cracks a joke | I |
| But the day's first client fails to laugh | J |
| Fresh from a tiff from his better half | J |
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| Nine o'clock Precise and neat | K |
| Miss Miggs comes mincing down the street | K |
| The town's dressmaker pert and prim | L |
| Sly eyes from under her hat's brim | L |
| Gathering gossip by the way | E |
| The same old goings on today | E |
| That grocer off for his morning nip | M |
| The chemist too that married rip | M |
| Flirting again with the girl next door | N |
| Miss Miggs gleans twenty tales to store | N |
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| Ten o'clock The town grows brisk | O |
| Down the main street motors whisk | O |
| Jinkers carts and farmers' drays | H |
| Stop at shops and go their ways | H |
| In soleman talk with the town surveyor | P |
| Comes Mr Mullinger our mayor | P |
| Pausing at doors for a friendly chat | Q |
| He bows he smiles he lifts his hat | Q |
| Now a brisker rush and a sudden din | R |
| 'That's her ' And the city train comes in | R |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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