The Cab Lamps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CAAA DDEE FFDD FFGG HHFF CCFFThe crescent moon and clock tower are fair above the wall | A |
Across the smothered lanes of Loo the stifled vice and all | A |
And in the shadow yonder like cats that wait for scraps | B |
The crowding cabs seem waiting for you and me perhaps | B |
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The cab lamps are watching as they watched for you and me | C |
The cab lamps are a watching and they watch unblinkingly | A |
The sea breeze in Macleay Street and star angels over all | A |
But the slinking cabs of darkness keep their watch beside the wall | A |
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Oh the years we slipped like months and the months like a day | D |
When our cabs slid from the stand touched the kerb and sped away | D |
Oh the cloak on girlish shoulders Oh the theatres and light | E |
And the private rooms and supper that were all in a night | E |
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Oh the rickshaw in Colombo And the flat that no one knew | F |
Where the cab lamps watched Haymarket London cabs for me and you | F |
Oh the gay run Home by Paris when the world was ours to play | D |
And the wild run back by Frisco that seems all in a day | D |
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Oh the cab lamps and rose curtains when the lie called love seemed true | F |
While an honest wife and husband suffered by the lanes of Loo | F |
Oh the health and strength and beauty and the money with its power | G |
And those two good lives we ruined that was all in an hour | G |
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But the night policeman s coming with a sharp suspicious eye | H |
And he d shift us quick and lively to the sweet by and by | H |
So we ll seek our frowsy bedroom if the old hag lets us through | F |
Where our folks died broken hearted in the cruel lanes of Loo | F |
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The cab lamps are watching as they watched across the sea | C |
The cab lamps are watching and they watch for you and me | C |
For you and me they waited when the thing called love seemed true | F |
But the bull s eye of our midnight must not flash on me and you | F |
Henry Lawson
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