A Face In The Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABABCDCDEE| Poor withered face that yet was once so fair | A |
| Grown ashen old in the wild fires of lust | B |
| Thy star like beauty dimm'd with earthly dust | B |
| Yet breathing of a purer native air | A |
| They who whilom cursed vultures sought a share | A |
| Of thy dead womanhood their greed unjust | B |
| Have satisfied have stripped and left thee bare | A |
| Still like a leaf warped by the autumn gust | B |
| And driving to the end thou wrapp'st in flame | C |
| And perfume all thy hollow eyed decay | D |
| Feigning on those gray cheeks the blush that Shame | C |
| Took with her when she fled long since away | D |
| Ah God rain fire upon this foul souled city | E |
| That gives such death and spares its men for pity | E |
George Parsons Lathrop
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