Main Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLMM

For S M LA
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I like to look at the blossomy track of the moon upon the seaB
But it isn't half so fine a sight as Main Street used to beB
When it all was covered over with a couple of feet of snowC
And over the crisp and radiant road the ringing sleighs would goC
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Now Main Street bordered with autumn leaves it was a pleasant thingD
And its gutters were gay with dandelions early in the SpringD
I like to think of it white with frost or dusty in the heatE
Because I think it is humaner than any other streetE
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A city street that is busy and wide is ground by a thousand wheelsF
And a burden of traffic on its breast is all it ever feelsF
It is dully conscious of weight and speed and of work that never endsG
But it cannot be human like Main Street and recognise its friendsG
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There were only about a hundred teams on Main Street in a dayH
And twenty or thirty people I guess and some children out to playH
And there wasn't a wagon or buggy or a man or a girl or a boyI
That Main Street didn't remember and somehow seem to enjoyI
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The truck and the motor and trolley car and the elevated trainJ
They make the weary city street reverberate with painJ
But there is yet an echo left deep down within my heartK
Of the music the Main Street cobblestones made beneath a butcher's cartK
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God be thanked for the Milky Way that runs across the skyL
That's the path that my feet would tread whenever I have to dieL
Some folks call it a Silver Sword and some a Pearly CrownM
But the only thing I think it is is Main Street HeaventownM

Joyce Kilmer



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