Summer In London Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEAA FFAAGG HHIIJBAA| Oh the noise of Piccadilly its rumble and its roar | A |
| A tide of life's broad ocean surging toward the shore | A |
| Who once has listened ever can hear its long refrain | B |
| With haunting echo drowning or dirge or flaunting strain | B |
| Who heeds it in his vision may see a world throng pass | C |
| And over there the Green Park with laughing lad and lass | C |
| While weary men and women and careless youth go by | D |
| Where windows glow and glitter and in the evening sky | D |
| A crescent moon is watching the laughing lass and lad | E |
| The long warm London twilight Happy they are though sad | E |
| With kiss and tear they are parting 'Tis late the rush and roar | A |
| The life of Picadilly is waning is no more | A |
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| Ah the dark the cold the stillness of the trenches in the night | F |
| Where freezing men are crouching in the lull before the fight | F |
| Then for one the calm is broken by the rumble and the roar | A |
| Of far off Picadilly and in dreams as oft before | A |
| He sees her who wept at parting What was that A whining shell | G |
| Once a man that huddled horror He was smiling as he fell | G |
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| Summer has returned to London Now the Green Park gleams anew | H |
| Cheers and tears together mingle but the breaking heart beats true | H |
| Blare of trumpet blood and fire so her hero marched away | I |
| Happy lad and lass they parted now the pitying sky is gray | I |
| Blood and fire Through its heroes shall a nation live again | J |
| Blare of trumpet But in silence aching hearts must bear their pain | B |
| Ah the stillness of the trenches ah the rumble and the roar | A |
| Cheers and tears by England offered for the lads who come no more | A |
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Helen Leah Reed
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