City Nightfall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEECFGGHIJJH| SMOKE upon smoke over the stone lips | A |
| Of chimneys bleeding a darker fume descends | B |
| Night the old nun in voiceless pity bends | B |
| To kiss corruption so fabulous her pity | C |
| All drowns in night Even the lazar drowns | D |
| In earth at last and rises up afresh | E |
| Married to dust with an Infanta's flesh | E |
| So night like earth receives this poisoned city | C |
| Charging its air with beauty coasting its lanterns | F |
| With mains of darkness till the leprous clay | G |
| Dissolves and pavements drift away | G |
| And there is only the quiet noise of planets feeding | H |
| And those who chafe here limed on the iron twigs | I |
| No greater seem than sparrows all their cries | J |
| Their clockwork and their merchandise | J |
| Frolic of painted dolls I pass unheeding | H |
Kenneth Slessor
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