Town Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEDE CDFD GHIG AHJK LMFL NAFN| LONDON | A |
| Used to wear her lights splendidly | B |
| Flinging her shawl fringe over the River | C |
| Tassels in abandon | A |
| - | |
| And up in the sky | D |
| A two eyed clock like an owl | E |
| Solemnly used to approve chime chiming | D |
| Approval goggle eyed fowl | E |
| - | |
| There are no gleams on the River | C |
| No goggling clock | D |
| No sound from St Stephen's | F |
| No lamp fringed frock | D |
| - | |
| Instead | G |
| Darkness and skin wrapped | H |
| Fleet hurrying limbs | I |
| Soft footed dead | G |
| - | |
| London | A |
| Original wolf wrapped | H |
| In pelts of wolves all her luminous | J |
| Garments gone | K |
| - | |
| London with hair | L |
| Like a forest darkness like a marsh | M |
| Of rushes ere the Romans | F |
| Broke in her lair | L |
| - | |
| It is well | N |
| That London lair of sudden | A |
| Male and female darknesses | F |
| Has broken her spell | N |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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