When Dawn Comes To The City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEF GGHGHIHHHGHGGI ABABAGAG GGHGHIHHHGHGGIThe 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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