A Northern Suburb Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF EGEG HDHD GIGI JEJE| Nature selects the longest way | A |
| And winds about in tortuous grooves | B |
| A thousand years the oaks decay | A |
| The wrinkled glacier hardly moves | B |
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| But here the whetted fangs of change | C |
| Daily devour the old demesne | D |
| The busy farm the quiet grange | C |
| The wayside inn the village green | D |
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| In gaudy yellow brick and red | E |
| With rooting pipes like creepers rank | F |
| The shoddy terraces o'erspread | E |
| Meadow and garth and daisied bank | F |
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| With shelves for rooms the houses crowd | E |
| Like draughty cupboards in a row | G |
| Ice chests when wintry winds are loud | E |
| Ovens when summer breezes blow | G |
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| Roused by the fee'd policeman's knock | H |
| And sad that day should come again | D |
| Under the stars the workmen flock | H |
| In haste to reach the workmen's train | D |
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| For here dwell those who must fulfil | G |
| Dull tasks in uncongenial spheres | I |
| Who toil through dread of coming ill | G |
| And not with hope of happier years | I |
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| The lowly folk who scarcely dare | J |
| Conceive themselves perhaps misplaced | E |
| Whose prize for unremitting care | J |
| Is only not to be disgraced | E |
John Davidson
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