John Collings Squire, Sir

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Lines Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG DCDC DHDH IJIJ DCDC AKAK LKLK MNMO PDPD PHPH DLDL QLQL RSRS

When London was a little townA
Lean by the river's margeB
The poet paced it with a frownA
He thought it very largeB
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He loved bright ship and pointing steepleC
And bridge with houses loadedD
And priests and many coloured peopleC
But ah they were not woadedD
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Not all the walls could shed the spellE
Of meres and marshes greenF
Nor any chaffering merchant tellE
The beauty that had beenG
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The crying birds at fall of nightD
The fisher in his coracleC
And grim on Ludgate's windy heightD
An oak tree and an oracleC
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Sick for the past his hair he rentD
And dropt a tear in seasonH
If he had cause for his lamentD
We have much better reasonH
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For now the fields and paths he knewI
Are coffined all with bricksJ
The lucid silver stream he knewI
Runs slimy as the StyxJ
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North and south and east and westD
Far as the eye can travelC
Earth with a sombre web is drestD
That nothing can unravelC
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And we must wear as black a frownA
Wail with as keen a woeK
That London was a little townA
Five hundred years agoK
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Yet even this place of steamy stirL
This pit of belch and swallowK
With chrism of gold and gossamerL
The elements can hallowK
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I have a room in Chancery LaneM
High in a world of wiresN
Whence fall the roofs a ragged plainM
Wooded with many spiresO
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There in the dawns of summer daysP
I stand and there beholdD
A city veiled in rainbow hazeP
And spangled all with goldD
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The breezes waft abroad the raysP
Shot by the waking sunH
A myriad chimneys softly blazeP
A myriad shadows runH
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Round the wide rim in radiant mistD
The gentle suburbs quiverL
And nearer lies the shining twistD
Of Thames a holy riverL
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Left and right my vision driftsQ
By yonder towers I lingerL
Where Westminster's cathedral liftsQ
Its belled Byzantine fingerL
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And here against my perch d homeR
Where hold wise converse dailyS
The loftier and the lesser domeR
St Paul's and the Old BaileyS

John Collings Squire, Sir



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