From The Lanes Of 'loo Or, The Cab Lamps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CAAA DDEE FFDD FDGG HHFD CCFF

The crescent moon and clock tower are fair above the wallA
Across the smothered lanes of 'Loo the stifled vice and allA
And in the shadow yonder like cats that wait for scrapsB
The crowding cabs seem waiting for you and me perhapsB
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The cab lamps are watching as they watched for you and meC
The cab lamps are a watching and they watch unblinkinglyA
The sea breeze in Macleay Street and star angels over allA
But the slinking cabs of darkness keep their watch beside the wallA
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Oh the years we slipped like months and the months like a dayD
When our cabs slid from the stand touched the kerb and sped awayD
Oh the cloak on girlish shoulders Oh the theatres and lightE
And the private rooms and supper that were all in a nightE
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Oh the rickshaw in Colombo And the flat that no one knewF
Where the cab lamps watched Haymarket London cabs for me and youF
Oh the gay run Home by Paris when the world was ours to playD
And the wild run back by Frisco that seems all in a dayD
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Oh the cab lamps and rose curtains when the lie called love seemed trueF
While an honest wife and husband suffered by the lanes of 'LooD
Oh the health and strength and beauty and the money with its powerG
And those two good lives we ruined that was all in an hourG
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But the night policeman's coming with a sharp suspicious eyeH
And he'd shift us quick and lively to the sweet by and byH
So we'll seek our frowsy bedroom if the old hag lets us throughF
Where our folks died broken hearted in the cruel lanes of 'LooD
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The cab lamps are watching as they watched across the seaC
The cab lamps are watching and they watch for you and meC
For you and me they waited when the thing called love seemed trueF
But the bull's eye of our midnight must not flash on me and youF

Henry Lawson



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