When Dawn Comes To The City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEF GGHGHIHHHGHGGI ABABAGAG GGHGHIHHHGHGGI| The tired cars go grumbling by | A |
| The moaning groaning cars | B |
| And the old milk carts go rumbling by | A |
| Under the same dull stars | B |
| Out of the tenements cold as stone | C |
| Dark figures start for work | D |
| I watch them sadly shuffle on | E |
| 'Tis dawn dawn in New York | F |
| - | |
| But I would be on the island of the sea | G |
| In the heart of the island of the sea | G |
| Where the cocks are crowing crowing crowing | H |
| And the hens are cackling in the rose apple tree | G |
| Where the old draft horse is neighing neighing neighing | H |
| Out on the brown dew silvered lawn | I |
| And the tethered cow is lowing lowing lowing | H |
| And dear old Ned is braying braying braying | H |
| And the shaggy Nannie goat is calling calling calling | H |
| From her little trampled corner of the long wide lea | G |
| That stretches to the waters of the hill stream falling | H |
| Sheer upon the flat rocks joyously | G |
| There oh there on the island of the sea | G |
| There would I be at dawn | I |
| - | |
| The tired cars go grumbling by | A |
| The crazy lazy cars | B |
| And the same milk carts go rumbling by | A |
| Under the dying stars | B |
| A lonely newsboy hurries by | A |
| Humming a recent ditty | G |
| Red streaks strike through the gray of the sky | A |
| The dawn comes to the city | G |
| - | |
| But I would be on the island of the sea | G |
| In the heart of the island of the sea | G |
| Where the cocks are crowing crowing crowing | H |
| And the hens are cackling in the rose apple tree | G |
| Where the old draft horse is neighing neighing neighing | H |
| Out on the brown dew silvered lawn | I |
| And the tethered cow is lowing lowing lowing | H |
| And dear old Ned is braying braying braying | H |
| And the shaggy Nannie goat is calling calling calling | H |
| From her little trampled corner of the long wide lea | G |
| That stretches to the waters of the hill stream falling | H |
| Sheer upon the flat rocks joyously | G |
| There oh there on the island of the sea | G |
| There I would be at dawn | I |
Claude Mckay
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