London Interior Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCDEDD FGGHHHF EE FIJI KLKMI NNO| Autumn is in the air | A |
| The children are playing everywhere | A |
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| One dare not open this old door too wide | B |
| It is so dark inside | B |
| The hall smells of dust | C |
| A narrow squirt of sunlight enters high | D |
| Cold yellow | E |
| The floor creaks and I hear a sigh | D |
| Rise in the gloom and die | D |
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| Through the hall far away | F |
| I just can see | G |
| The dingy garden with its wall and tree | G |
| A yellow cat is sitting on the wall | H |
| Blinking toward the leaves that fall | H |
| And now I hear a woman call | H |
| Some child from play | F |
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| Then all is still Time must go | E |
| Ticking slow glooming slow | E |
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| The evening will turn grey | F |
| It is sad in London after two | I |
| All all the afternoon | J |
| What can old men old women do | I |
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| It is sad in London when the gloom | K |
| Thickens like wool | L |
| In the corners of the room | K |
| The sky is shot with steel | M |
| Shot with blue | I |
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| The bells ring the slow time | N |
| The chairs creak the hours climb | N |
| The sunlight lays a streak upon the floor | O |
Harold Monro
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