In Collins Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHHII AACCGGJJ KLMMMMMM BNOOPPCC| I stood in the heart of the city street | A |
| I felt the throb of her pulses beat | A |
| The thunder of life on the sunny air | B |
| The waves of the people everywhere | B |
| Like the stirring lilt of a mighty song | C |
| Ran the fever of life in the moving throng | C |
| With the hope and joy and the want and woe | D |
| Of a million souls in its ebb and flow | D |
| Like a floating straw in an eddy caught | E |
| My soul was whirled in the city s thought | F |
| The purse born pride and the scheming brain | G |
| The grinding need and the grasping gain | G |
| The silent strength that is born to rule | H |
| And the shallow laugh of the feckless fool | H |
| The fresh young face where no shadow lies | I |
| And the quenchless pain in the harlot s eyes | I |
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| I stood in the heart of the city street | A |
| And I heard not the tread of the passing feet | A |
| For the days were grey and the nights were long | C |
| And my soul was vexed with a wild sad song | C |
| And the world like a stream flowed thro my brain | G |
| And I saw her lands in a dream of pain | G |
| And her power enthroned on the people s needs | J |
| And her heroes dead for a hundred creeds | J |
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| And I saw thro the pageant moving on | K |
| The same dark horrors of ages gone | L |
| The dumb despair and the dire distress | M |
| And man still mad in his littleness | M |
| Who cares tho Earth be a masterpiece | M |
| If pain and sorrow shall never cease | M |
| Does God endure in His vaulted skies | M |
| The hopeless pain in His creatures eyes | M |
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| Then I saw like a glory shining thro | B |
| What man had conquered and yet shall do | N |
| I saw the depths where he lay of old | O |
| And the heights of a splendour yet untold | O |
| And I knew in a flash since the world began | P |
| What man had suffered and done for man | P |
| And I felt like a note that is borne along | C |
| On the upward swell of a battle song | C |
George Essex Evans
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