A Crowded Trolley-car Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHHH IJIJ| The rain's cold grains are silver gray | A |
| Sharp as golden sands | B |
| A bell is clanging people sway | A |
| Hanging by their hands | B |
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| Supple hands or gnarled and stiff | C |
| Snatch and catch and grope | D |
| That face is yellow pale as if | C |
| The fellow swung from rope | D |
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| Dull like pebbles sharp like knives | E |
| Glances strike and glare | F |
| Fingers tangle Bluebeard's wives | E |
| Dangle by the hair | F |
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| Orchard of the strangest fruits | G |
| Hanging from the skies | H |
| Brothers yet insensate brutes | H |
| Who fear each other's eyes | H |
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| One man stands as free men stand | I |
| As if his soul might be | J |
| Brave unbroken see his hand | I |
| Nailed to an oaken tree | J |
Elinor Morton Wylie
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