A Loafer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCB DEDEDE DFDFGF HIHIDI DGDGDG JKJKLK MNMNON| I hang about the streets all day | A |
| At night I hang about | B |
| I sleep a little when I may | A |
| But rise betimes the morning's scout | B |
| For through the year I always hear | C |
| Afar aloft a ghostly shout | B |
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| My clothes are worn to threads and loops | D |
| My skin shows here and there | E |
| About my face like seaweed droops | D |
| My tangled beard my tangled hair | E |
| From cavernous and shaggy brows | D |
| My stony eyes untroubled stare | E |
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| I move from eastern wretchedness | D |
| Through Fleet Street and the Strand | F |
| And as the pleasant people press | D |
| I touch them softly with my hand | F |
| Perhaps I know that still I go | G |
| Alive about a living land | F |
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| For far in front the clouds are riven | H |
| I hear the ghostly cry | I |
| As if a still voice fell from heaven | H |
| To where sea whelmed the drowned folk lie | I |
| In sepulchres no tempest stirs | D |
| And only eyeless things pass by | I |
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| In Piccadilly spirits pass | D |
| Oh eyes and cheeks that glow | G |
| Oh strength and comeliness Alas | D |
| The lustrous health is earth I know | G |
| From shrinking eyes that recognise | D |
| No brother in my rags and woe | G |
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| I know no handicraft no art | J |
| But I have conquered fate | K |
| For I have chosen the better part | J |
| And neither hope nor fear nor hate | K |
| With placid breath on pain and death | L |
| My certain alms alone I wait | K |
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| And daily nightly comes the call | M |
| The pale unechoing note | N |
| The faint quot Aha quot sent from the wall | M |
| Of heaven but from no ruddy throat | N |
| Of human breed or seraph's seed | O |
| A phantom voice that cries by rote | N |
John Davidson
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