Macleay Street And Red Rock Lane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJEKE LMIMNOLO LONOPLQL JRJRJSTS AOLOQUTS VWLWXLJL JJNJLJLJ THLHJSISMacleay Street looks to Mosman | A |
Across the other side | B |
With brave asphalted pavements | C |
And roadway clean and wide | B |
Macleay Street hath its mansions | D |
Its grounds and greenery | E |
Macleay Street hath its terraces | F |
As terraces should be | E |
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Red Rock Lane looks to nowhere | G |
With pockets into hell | H |
Red Rock Lane is a horror | I |
Of heat and dirt and smell | H |
Red Rock Lane hath its brothels | J |
Of houses one in three | E |
Red Rock Lane hath its corner pubs | K |
As fourth rate pubs should be | E |
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Macleay Street cool and quiet | L |
Is marked off from the town | M |
And standing in the centre | I |
The tall arc lamps look down | M |
The jealous closed cabs vanish | N |
That stole from out the row | O |
Fair women stroll bareheaded | L |
And theatre parties go | O |
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Red Rock Lane hot with riot | L |
Hides things that none should know | O |
The furtive couples vanish | N |
Through doorways dark and low | O |
Lust thievery drink and madness | P |
In one infernal stew | L |
And Mrs Johnson raving | Q |
Walks out bareheaded too | L |
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Macleay Street hath its swindles | J |
But on a public scale | R |
Macleay Street hath its razzles | J |
Until the night grows pale | R |
Macleay Street hath its scandals | J |
But only this is plain | S |
That nothing is a scandal | T |
Down there in Red Rock Lane | S |
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Macleay Street looks to Mosman | A |
In morning s rosy glow | O |
And freshly to the city | L |
The summer suited go | O |
While wild eyed foul and shaking | Q |
Red Rock Lane wakes again | U |
This morning at the Central | T |
They re fining Red Rock Lane | S |
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The Central says the risin | V |
Seven days or what you will | W |
Macleay Street says Drive slowly | L |
When any one is ill | W |
The law sends Black Maria | X |
When Red Rock Lane is dead | L |
But doctors come in motor cars | J |
When Macleay Street s got a head | L |
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The grey faced weedy parents | J |
Sunk in Red Rock Lane holes | J |
They worry pinch and perish | N |
To save their children s souls | J |
The fairy of Macleay Street | L |
Shall never soil her hands | J |
Her Pa is independent | L |
Or high up in the Lands | J |
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And well there seems no moral | T |
And nothing more to tell | H |
But because of that fierce sympathy | L |
Of souls to souls in hell | H |
And because of that wild kindness | J |
To souls in sordid pain | S |
My soul I d rather venture | I |
With some in Red Rock Lane | S |
Henry Lawson
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