When Dawn Comes To The City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEF GGHGHIHHHGHGGI ABABAGAG GGHGHIHHHGHGGI

The tired cars go grumbling byA
The moaning groaning carsB
And the old milk carts go rumbling byA
Under the same dull starsB
Out of the tenements cold as stoneC
Dark figures start for workD
I watch them sadly shuffle onE
'Tis dawn dawn in New YorkF
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But I would be on the island of the seaG
In the heart of the island of the seaG
Where the cocks are crowing crowing crowingH
And the hens are cackling in the rose apple treeG
Where the old draft horse is neighing neighing neighingH
Out on the brown dew silvered lawnI
And the tethered cow is lowing lowing lowingH
And dear old Ned is braying braying brayingH
And the shaggy Nannie goat is calling calling callingH
From her little trampled corner of the long wide leaG
That stretches to the waters of the hill stream fallingH
Sheer upon the flat rocks joyouslyG
There oh there on the island of the seaG
There would I be at dawnI
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The tired cars go grumbling byA
The crazy lazy carsB
And the same milk carts go rumbling byA
Under the dying starsB
A lonely newsboy hurries byA
Humming a recent dittyG
Red streaks strike through the gray of the skyA
The dawn comes to the cityG
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But I would be on the island of the seaG
In the heart of the island of the seaG
Where the cocks are crowing crowing crowingH
And the hens are cackling in the rose apple treeG
Where the old draft horse is neighing neighing neighingH
Out on the brown dew silvered lawnI
And the tethered cow is lowing lowing lowingH
And dear old Ned is braying braying brayingH
And the shaggy Nannie goat is calling calling callingH
From her little trampled corner of the long wide leaG
That stretches to the waters of the hill stream fallingH
Sheer upon the flat rocks joyouslyG
There oh there on the island of the seaG
There I would be at dawnI

Claude Mckay



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