Suburb Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BABBA CCDD AAAA EEAFAG HAHAAAI JJ KK LMLMM| Dull and hard the low wind creaks | A |
| Among the rustling pampas plumes | A |
| Drearily the year consumes | A |
| Its fifty two insipid weeks | A |
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| Most of the grey green meadowland | B |
| Was sold in parsimonious lots | A |
| The dingy houses stand | B |
| Pressed by some stout contractor's hand | B |
| Tightly together in their plots | A |
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| Through builded banks the sullen river | C |
| Gropes where its houses crouch and shiver | C |
| Over the bridge the tyrant train | D |
| Shrieks and emerges on the plain | D |
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| In all the better gardens you may pass | A |
| Product of many careful Saturdays | A |
| Large red geraniums and tall pampas grass | A |
| Adorn the plots and mark the gravelled ways | A |
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| Sometimes in the background may be seen | E |
| A private summer house in white or green | E |
| Here on warm nights the daughter brings | A |
| Her vacillating clerk | F |
| To talk of small exciting things | A |
| And touch his fingers through the dark | G |
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| He in the uncomfortable breach | H |
| Between her trilling laughters | A |
| Promises in halting speech | H |
| Hopeless immense Hereafters | A |
| She trembles like the pampas plumes | A |
| Her strained lips haggle He assumes | A |
| The serious quest | I |
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| Now as the train is whistling past | J |
| He takes her in his arms at last | J |
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| It's done She blushes at his side | K |
| Across the lawn a bride a bride | K |
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| The stout contractor will design | L |
| The lazy laborers will prepare | M |
| Another villa on the line | L |
| In the little garden square | M |
| Pampas grass will rustle there | M |
Harold Monro
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