Second Class Wait Here Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAB EED FF GGD HHII JJD KKDD| At suburban railway stations you may see them as you pass | A |
| there are signboards on the platform saying 'Wait here second class ' | B |
| And to me the whirr and thunder and the cluck of running gear | C |
| Seem to be forever saying 'Second class wait here | D |
| Wait here second class | A |
| Second class wait here ' | B |
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| Seem to be forever saying 'Second class wait here ' | - |
| Yes the second class were waiting in the days of serf and prince | E |
| And the second class are waiting they've been waiting ever since | E |
| There are gardens in the background and the line is bare and drear | D |
| Yet they wait beneath a signboard sneering 'Second class wait here ' | - |
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| I have waited oft in winter in the mornings dark and damp | F |
| When the asphalt platform glistened underneath the lonely lamp | F |
| Glistened on the brick faced cutting 'Sellum's Soap' and 'Blower's Beer ' | - |
| Glistened on enamelled signboards with their 'Second class wait here ' | - |
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| And the others seemed like burglars slouched and muffled to the throats | G |
| Standing round apart and silent in their shoddy overcoats | G |
| And the wind among the poplars and the wires that thread the air | D |
| Seemed to be forever snarling snarling 'Second class wait there ' | - |
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| Out beyond a further suburb 'neath a chimney stack alone | H |
| Lay the works of Grinder Brothers with a platform of their own | H |
| And I waited there and suffered waited there for many a day | I |
| Slaved beneath a phantom signboard telling all my hopes to stay | I |
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| Ah a man must feel revengeful for a boyhood such as mine | J |
| God I hate the very houses near the workshop by the line | J |
| And the smell of railway stations and the roar of running gear | D |
| And the scornful seeming signboards saying 'Second class wait here ' | - |
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| There's a train with Death for driver that is ever going past | K |
| There will be no class compartments when it's 'all aboard' at last | K |
| For the long white jasper platform with an Eden in the rear | D |
| And there won't be any signboards saying 'Second class wait here' | D |
Henry Lawson
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