Devonshire Street W.1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG GHGH| The heavy mahogany door with its wrought iron screen | A |
| Shuts And the sound is rich sympathetic discreet | B |
| The sun still shines on this eighteenth century scene | A |
| With Edwardian faience adornment Devonshire Street | B |
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| No hope And the X ray photographs under his arm | C |
| Confirm the message His wife stands timidly by | D |
| The opposite brick built house looks lofty and calm | E |
| Its chimneys steady against the mackerel sky | D |
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| No hope And the iron knob of this palisade | F |
| So cold to the touch is luckier now than he | G |
| Oh merciless hurrying Londoners Why was I made | F |
| For the long and painful deathbed coming to me | G |
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| She puts her fingers in his as loving and silly | G |
| At long past Kensington dances she used to do | H |
| It's cheaper to take the tube to Piccadilly | G |
| And then we can catch a nineteen or twenty two | H |
John Betjeman
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