Main Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLMMFor S M L | A |
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I like to look at the blossomy track of the moon upon the sea | B |
But it isn't half so fine a sight as Main Street used to be | B |
When it all was covered over with a couple of feet of snow | C |
And over the crisp and radiant road the ringing sleighs would go | C |
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Now Main Street bordered with autumn leaves it was a pleasant thing | D |
And its gutters were gay with dandelions early in the Spring | D |
I like to think of it white with frost or dusty in the heat | E |
Because I think it is humaner than any other street | E |
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A city street that is busy and wide is ground by a thousand wheels | F |
And a burden of traffic on its breast is all it ever feels | F |
It is dully conscious of weight and speed and of work that never ends | G |
But it cannot be human like Main Street and recognise its friends | G |
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There were only about a hundred teams on Main Street in a day | H |
And twenty or thirty people I guess and some children out to play | H |
And there wasn't a wagon or buggy or a man or a girl or a boy | I |
That Main Street didn't remember and somehow seem to enjoy | I |
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The truck and the motor and trolley car and the elevated train | J |
They make the weary city street reverberate with pain | J |
But there is yet an echo left deep down within my heart | K |
Of the music the Main Street cobblestones made beneath a butcher's cart | K |
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God be thanked for the Milky Way that runs across the sky | L |
That's the path that my feet would tread whenever I have to die | L |
Some folks call it a Silver Sword and some a Pearly Crown | M |
But the only thing I think it is is Main Street Heaventown | M |
Joyce Kilmer
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