The Fire Brigade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CACA EFEF GHGH AIAI AJAJ KLML| Hark high o'er the rattle and clamour and clatter | A |
| Of traffic filled streets do you hear that loud noise | B |
| And pushing and rushing to see what's the matter | A |
| Like herds of wild cattle go pell mell the boys | B |
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| There's a fire in the city the engines are coming | C |
| The bold bells are clanging Make way in the street | D |
| The wheels of the hose cart are spinning and humming | C |
| In time to the music of galloping feet | D |
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| Make way there make way there the horses are flying | C |
| The sparks from their swift hoofs shoot higher and higher | A |
| The crowds are increasing the gamins are crying | C |
| Hooray boys Hooray boys Come on to the fire | A |
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| With clanging and banging and clatter and rattle | E |
| The long ladders follow the engine and hose | F |
| The men are all ready to dash into battle | E |
| But will they come out again God only knows | F |
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| At windows and doorways crowd questioning faces | G |
| There's something about it that quickens one's breath | H |
| How proudly the brave fellows sit in their places | G |
| And speed to the conflict that may be their death | H |
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| Still faster and faster and faster and faster | A |
| The grand horses thunder and leap on their way | I |
| The red foe is yonder and may prove the master | A |
| Turn out there bold traffic turn out there I say | I |
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| For once the loud truckman knows oaths will not matter | A |
| And reins in his horses and yields to his fate | J |
| The engines are coming let pleasure crowds scatter | A |
| Let street car and truckman and mail waggon wait | J |
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| They speed like a comet they pass in a minute | K |
| The boys follow on like a tail to a kite | L |
| The commonplace street has but traffic now in it | M |
| The great fire engines have swept out of sight | L |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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