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The Subway Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCE FGFFG GHGGH GIGGJ GGGGG KLKKL

Oh who in creation would fail to descendA
That wonderful hole in the groundB
That feeling its way like a hypocrite friendA
In sinuous fashion seems never to endA
While thunder and lightning aboundB
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Oh who in creation would dare to go downC
That great subterranean holeD
The tunnel the terror the talk of the townC
That gives to the city a mighty renownC
And a shaking as never beforeE
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A serpent a spider its mouth at the topF
Where the flies are all buzzing aboutG
Down into its maw where the populace dropF
Who never know where they are going to stopF
Or whether they'll ever get outG
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Why is it with millions of acres untrodG
Where never the ploughshare hath beenH
That man must needs burrow miles under the sodG
As if to get farther and farther from GodG
And deeper and deeper in sinH
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O Dagos and diggers who can't understandG
That the planet you'll never get throughI
Why there is three times as much water as landG
And but for the least little seam in the sandG
Your life is worth less than a souJ
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Come up out of Erebus into the dayG
There's plenty of room overheadG
No boring or blasting of rocks in the wayG
No stratum of sticky impervious clayG
All vacuous vapor insteadG
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Oh give us a transit a tube or an elK
Not leagues from the surface belowL
As if we were never in Heaven to dwellK
As if we were all being fired to wellK
The place where we don't want to goL

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