4th July 1882, Malines. Midnight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBABACDACDA| Belgian with cumbrous tread and iron boots | A |
| Who in the murky middle of the night | B |
| Designing to renew the foul pursuits | A |
| In which thy life is passed ill favoured wight | B |
| And wishing on the platform to alight | B |
| Where thou couldst mingle with thy fellow brutes | A |
| Didst walk the carriage floor a leprous sight | B |
| As o'er the sky some baleful meteor shoots | A |
| Upon my slippered foot thou didst descend | C |
| Didst rouse me from my slumbers mad with pain | D |
| And laughedst loud for several minutes' space | A |
| Oh may'st thou suffer tortures without end | C |
| May fiends with glowing pincers rend thy brain | D |
| And beetles batten on thy blackened face | A |
James Kenneth Stephen
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