The Streets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CDC BEB FEF GHI JHJ KLK FAF MNOMarlboro' and Waterloo and Trafalgar | A |
Tuileries Talavera Valenciennes | B |
Were strange names all and all familiar | A |
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For down their streets I went early and late | C |
Is there a street where I have never been | D |
Of all those hundreds narrow skyless straight | C |
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Early and late they were my woods and meadows | B |
The rain upon their dust my summer smell | E |
Their scant herb and brown sparrows and harsh shadows | B |
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Were all my spring Was there another spring | F |
I knew their noisy desolation well | E |
Drinking it up as a child drinks everything | F |
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Knowing no other world than brick and stone | G |
With one rich memory of the earth all bright | H |
Now all is fallen into oblivion | I |
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All that I was in years of school and play | J |
Things that I hated things that were delight | H |
Are all forgotten or shut all away | J |
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Behind a creaking door that opens slow | K |
But there's a child that walks those streets of war | L |
Hearing his running footsteps as they go | K |
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Echoed from house to house and wondering | F |
At Marlboro' Waterloo and Trafalgar | A |
And at night when the yellow gas lamps fling | F |
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Unsteady shadows singing for company | M |
Yet loving the lighted dark and any star | N |
Caught by sharp roofs in a narrow net of sky | O |
John Frederick Freeman
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