Lockerbie Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFGHCC IIJJCC| Such a dear little street it is nestled away | A |
| From the noise of the city and heat of the day | A |
| In cool shady coverts of whispering trees | B |
| With their leaves lifted up to shake hands with the breeze | B |
| Which in all its wide wanderings never may meet | C |
| With a resting place fairer than Lockerbie street | C |
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| There is such a relief from the clangor and din | D |
| Of the heart of the town to go loitering in | D |
| Through the dim narrow walks with the sheltering shade | E |
| Of the trees waving over the long promenade | E |
| And littering lightly the ways of our feet | C |
| With the gold of the sunshine of Lockerbie street | C |
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| And the nights that come down the dark pathways of dusk | F |
| With the stars in their tresses and odors of musk | F |
| In their moon woven raiments bespangled with dews | G |
| And looped up with lilies for lovers to use | H |
| In the songs that they sing to the tinkle and beat | C |
| Of their sweet serenadings through Lockerbie street | C |
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| O my Lockerbie street You are fair to be seen | I |
| Be it noon of the day or the rare and serene | I |
| Afternoon of the night you are one to my heart | J |
| And I love you above all the phrases of art | J |
| For no language could frame and no lips could repeat | C |
| My rhyme haunted raptures of Lockerbie street | C |
James Whitcomb Riley
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