In The Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCD DEEFF GHHIJ JKKLL MNNOP PQQLL| Where the needle woman toils | A |
| Through the night with hand and brain | B |
| Till the sickly daylight shudders like a spectre at the pain | B |
| Till her eyes seem to crawl | C |
| And her brain seems to creep | D |
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| And her limbs are all a tremble for the want of rest and sleep | D |
| It is there the fire brand blazes in my blood and it is there | E |
| That I see the crimson banner of the Children of Despair | E |
| That I feel the soul and music in a rebel's battle song | F |
| And the greatest love for justice and the hottest hate for wrong | F |
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| When the foremost in his greed | G |
| Presses heavy on the last | H |
| In the brutal spirit rising from the grave yard of the past | H |
| Where the poor are trodden down | I |
| And the rich are deaf and blind | J |
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| It is there I feel the greatest love and pity for mankind | J |
| There where heart to heart is saying though the tongue and lip be still | K |
| We've been through it all and know it brother we've been through the mill | K |
| There the spirits of my brothers rise the higher for defeat | L |
| And the drums of revolution roll for ever in the street | L |
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| Christ is coming once again | M |
| And his day is drawing near | N |
| He is leading on the thousands of the army of the rear | N |
| We shall know the second advent | O |
| By the lower skies aflame | P |
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| With the signals of his coming for he comes not as he came | P |
| Not humble meek and lowly as he came in days of old | Q |
| But with hatred retribution for the worshippers of gold | Q |
| And the roll of battle music and the steady tramp of feet | L |
| Sound for ever in the thunder and the rattle of the street | L |
Henry Lawson
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