The Streets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CDC BEB FEF GHI JHJ KLK FAF MNO| Marlboro' 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 Freeman
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