A Town Poem Rhyme Scheme

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A BUSY town mid Britain's isle	A
Behold in fancy's eye	B
With tower and spire and civic pile	A
Beneath a summer sky	B
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And orchard garden field and park	C
And grove and sunny wall	D
And ranging buildings light and dark	C
As evening shadows fall	D
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Then listen to the ceaseless din	E
Of hammer saw and crane	F
And traffic passing out and in	E
From alley street and lane	F
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The sound without a pause between	G
Of foot and wheel and hoof	H
The manufacture's loud machine	G
From yonder lengthened roof	H
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And children at their evening sports	I
Parading to and fro	J
Assembled in the quiet courts	I
Of yonder cottage row	J
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Gay streets display their shining wares	K
To every roving eye	B
As eager in their own affairs	K
The busy tribes go by	B
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And ah what varied forms of woe	J
What hope and fear are found	L
What passions rise what scandals grow	J
Within this narrow bound	L
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To pass the peaceful dwellings by	B
No stranger eye might guess	M
Those scenes of joy and agony	N
Of discord and distress	M
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Pain writhes within those stately walls	O
Here pallid want hath been	E
That casement where the curtain falls	O
Shows death has entered in	E
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The dwelling ranging next to this	P
A youthful group displays	Q
Elate they seem with present bliss	P
And hope of distant days	Q
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There at her chamber window high	B
A lonely maiden sits	R
Its casement fronts the western sky	B
And balmy air admits	R
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And while her thoughts have wandered far	S
From all she hears and sees	T
She gazes on the evening star	S
That twinkles through the trees	T
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Is it to watch the setting sun	U
She does that seat prefer	V
Alas the maiden thinks of one	U
Who never thinks of her	V
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But lively is the street below	J
And ceaseless is the hum	W
As some intent on pleasure go	J
On schemes of profit some	W
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Now widening seems the stream to be	N
As evening stretches o'er	V
Plebeian tribes from toil set free	N
Pour forth from every door	X
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A school arranged in order due	Y
Before the sun goes down	Z
Lady and lady two and two	Y
Comes winding through the town	Z
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And what drives up to yonder door	X
The gaping crowd among	A2
A wedding train of chaises four	X
And all the bells are rung	A2
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The laden waggon tinkles by	B
The post is going out	B2
The lights are lit the coaches ply	B
To tavern ball and rout	B2
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Thus closed that merry summer's day	C2
And would you ask me how	D2
You might the busy scene survey	C2
And see those faces now	D2
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Then hither turn yon waving grass	E2
And mouldering stones will show	J
For these transactions came to pass	E2
A hundred years ago	J

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