In A Modern City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGI JKJKLMLM NONOLPLP QRQRSTST| Dreary fog and drizzling sleet | A |
| And a lamp lit track of slime | B |
| Phantoms dim in the misty street | A |
| Vanishing streaked with grime | B |
| Overhead in a spurious night | C |
| Formed by the vapors dun | D |
| Wraith like globes of haloed light | C |
| Mocking the hidden sun | D |
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| Children shod in sodden shoes | E |
| That is a sight that hurts | F |
| Women furrowing filthy ooze | E |
| In thin bedraggled skirts | F |
| Horses lashed with cruel zest | G |
| Ploughing the fumid fog | H |
| Hark a car with no arrest | G |
| Killing a howling dog | I |
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| Clanging trams with haggard men | J |
| Forcing their way within | K |
| Some compressed in a steaming pen | J |
| Others soaked to the skin | K |
| Smoke and soot in the murky sky | L |
| Death in the tainted air | M |
| Each aware were he to die | L |
| None in the crowd would care | M |
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| Here and there a carriage fine | N |
| Cleaving the reeking mass | O |
| Scowling faces ranged in line | N |
| Watching the rich man pass | O |
| Envy's gleam in many an eye | L |
| Hate in many a threat | P |
| Why should he be warm and dry | L |
| And they be cold and wet | P |
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| Pictures these of the Passing Show | Q |
| Scenes in a world gone wrong | R |
| Wretched weaklings born to woe | Q |
| Crushed by the brutal strong | R |
| Breaking hearts that crave release | S |
| Slaves to a ceaseless strife | T |
| I will go back to sylvan peace | S |
| And a sight of the Source of Life | T |
John L. Stoddard
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