Last Trams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFEEEEEEEEGGEAE HEHEIEIEJEJAKAKCLML| I | A |
| THAT street washed with violet | B |
| Writes like a tablet | C |
| Of living here that pavement | D |
| Is the metal embodiment | D |
| Of living here those terraces | E |
| Filled with dumb presences | F |
| Lobbed over mattresses | E |
| Lusts and repentances | E |
| Ardours and solaces | E |
| Passions and hatreds | E |
| And love in brass bedsteads | E |
| Lost now in emptiness | E |
| Deep now in darkness | E |
| Nothing but nakedness | E |
| Rails like a ribbon | G |
| And sickness of carbon | G |
| Dying in distances | E |
| II | A |
| THEN from the skeletons of trams | E |
| Gazing at lighted rooms you'll find | H |
| The black and R ntgen diagrams | E |
| Of window plants across the blind | H |
| That print their knuckleduster sticks | E |
| Their buds of gum against the light | I |
| Like negatives of candlesticks | E |
| Whose wicks are lit by fluorite | I |
| And shapes look out or bodies pass | E |
| Between the darkness and the flare | J |
| Between the curtain and the glass | E |
| Of men and women moving there | J |
| So through the moment's needle eye | A |
| Like phantoms in the window chink | K |
| Their faces brush you as they fly | A |
| Fixed in the shutters of a blink | K |
| But whose they are intent on what | C |
| Who knows They rattle into void | L |
| Stars of a film without a plot | M |
| Snippings of idiot celluloid | L |
Kenneth Slessor
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