Macdougal Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE FB FB GHGIAs I went walking up and down to take the evening air | A |
Sweet to meet upon the street why must I be so shy | B |
I saw him lay his hand upon her torn black hair | A |
Little dirty Latin child let the lady by | B |
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The women squatting on the stoops were slovenly and fat | C |
Lay me out in organdie lay me out in lawn | D |
And everywhere I stepped there was a baby or a cat | C |
Lord God in Heaven will it never be dawn | D |
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The fruit carts and clam carts were ribald as a fair | A |
Pink nets and wet shells trodden under heel | E |
She had haggled from the fruit man of his rotting ware | A |
I shall never get to sleep the way I feel | E |
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He walked like a king through the filth and the clutter | F |
Sweet to meet upon the street why did you glance me by | B |
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But he caught the quaint Italian quip she flung him from the gutter | F |
What can there be to cry about that I should lie and cry | B |
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He laid his darling hand upon her little black head | G |
I wish I were a ragged child with ear rings in my ears | H |
And he said she was a baggage to have said what she had said | G |
Truly I shall be ill unless I stop these tears | I |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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ibiba Ibinabo tamunominji: So sorrowful.
ibiba Ibinabo tamunominji: So sorrowful.
ibiba Ibinabo tamunominji: So sorrowful.
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