Tyne Dock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC EEDEEF GHIJHI KEDKEGK| The summer season at Tyne Dock | A |
| Hoisted my boyhood in a crane | B |
| Above the shaggy mining town | C |
| Above the slaghills and the rocks | D |
| Above the middens in backlanes | D |
| And wooden hen huts falling down | C |
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| Vermilion grass grew in the street | E |
| Where the blind pit ponies pranced | E |
| And poppies screamed by butchers' stalls | D |
| Where bulls kicked sparks with dying feet | E |
| And in the naked larks I sensed | E |
| A cruel god beneath it all | F |
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| Over the pit head wheel the moon | G |
| Was clean as a girl's face in school | H |
| I envied the remote old man | I |
| Who lived there happy and alone | J |
| While in the kitchen the mad spool | H |
| Unwound as Annie's treadle ran | I |
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| The boyish season is still there | K |
| For clapping hands and leaping feet | E |
| Across the slagheaps and the dunes | D |
| And still it breaks into my care | K |
| Though I will never find the street | E |
| Nor catch the old impulsive tune | G |
| Nor ever lose that child's despair | K |
Francis Scarfe
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