The Street Player Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CC DD CC EC EC FF GG HI JJ KK CC LL| The shopping had been tedious and the rain | A |
| Came pelting down as she turned home again | B |
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| The motor bus swirled past with rush and whirr | C |
| Nought but its fumes of petrol left for her | C |
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| The bloaters in her basket and the cheese | D |
| Malodorously mixed themselves with these | D |
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| And all seemed wrong The world was drab and grey | C |
| As the slow minutes wept themselves away | C |
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| And then athwart the noises of the street | E |
| A violin flung out an Irish air | C |
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| I'll take you home again Kathleen Ah sweet | E |
| How tender sweet those lilting phrases were | C |
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| They soothed away the weariness and brought | F |
| Such peace to one worn woman over wrought | F |
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| That she forgot the things which vexed her so | G |
| The too outrageous price of calico | G |
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| The shop girl's look of pitying insolence | H |
| Because she paused to count the dwindling pence | I |
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| The player stopped But the rapt vision stayed | J |
| That woman faced life's worries unafraid | J |
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| The sugar shortage now had ceased to be | K |
| An insurmountable calamity | K |
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| Her kingdom was not bacon no nor butter | C |
| But things more costly still too rare to utter | C |
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| And over chimney pots so bare and tall | L |
| The sun set gloriously after all | L |
Fay Inchfawn
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