Night In New York Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEDGHAHFIFHF JJKLMNMNMLN OPOLPLQQ RSQRSQTQSUTQQU UQTUUVWUXQWVU XU| Haunted by unknown feet | A |
| Ways of the midnight hour | B |
| Strangely you murmur below me | C |
| Strange is your half silent power | B |
| Places of life and of death | D |
| Numbered and named as streets | E |
| What through your channels of stone | F |
| Is the tide that unweariedly beats | E |
| A whisper a sigh laden breath | D |
| Is all that I hear of its flowing | G |
| Footsteps of stranger and foe | H |
| Footsteps of friends could we meet | A |
| Alike to me in my sorrow | H |
| Alike to a life left alone | F |
| Yet swift as my heart they throb | I |
| They fall thick as tears on the stone | F |
| My spirit perchance may borrow | H |
| New strength from their eager tone | F |
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| Still ever that slip and slide | J |
| Of the feet that shuffle or glide | J |
| And linger or haste through the populous waste | K |
| Of the shadowy dim lit square | L |
| And I know not from the sound | M |
| As I sit and ponder within | N |
| The goal to which those steps are bound | M |
| On hest of mercy or hest of sin | N |
| Or joy's short measured round | M |
| Yet a meaning deep they bear | L |
| In their vaguely muffled din | N |
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| Roar of the multitude | O |
| Chafe of the million crowd | P |
| To this you are all subdued | O |
| In the murmurous sad night air | L |
| Yet whether you thunder aloud | P |
| Or hush your tone to a prayer | L |
| You chant amain through the modern maze | Q |
| The only epic of our days | Q |
| - | |
| Still as death are the places of life | R |
| The city seems crumbled and gone | S |
| Sunk 'mid invisible deeps | Q |
| The city so lately rife | R |
| With the stir of brain and brawn | S |
| Haply it only sleeps | Q |
| But what if indeed it were dead | T |
| And another earth should arise | Q |
| To greet the gray of the dawn | S |
| Faint then our epic would wail | U |
| To those who should come in our stead | T |
| But what if that earth were ours | Q |
| What if with holier eyes | Q |
| We should meet the new hope and not fail | U |
| - | |
| Weary the night grows pale | U |
| With a blush as of opening flowers | Q |
| Dimly the east shines red | T |
| Can it be that the morn shall fulfil | U |
| My dream and refashion our clay | U |
| As the poet may fashion his rhyme | V |
| Hark to that mingled scream | W |
| Rising from workshop and mill | U |
| Hailing some marvelous sight | X |
| Mighty breath of the hours | Q |
| Poured through the trumpets of steam | W |
| Awful tornado of time | V |
| Blowing us whither it will | U |
| - | |
| God has breathed in the nostrils of night | X |
| And behold it is day | U |
George Parsons Lathrop
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