Scenes In London Ii - Oxford Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIAI DJDJ KLKL MNMN OPQP RSTS JUJU VMVM JRJT CWCW HXHX| LIFE in its many shapes was there | A |
| The busy and the gay | B |
| Faces that seemed too young and fair | A |
| To ever know decay | B |
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| Wealth with its waste its pomp and pride | C |
| Led forth its glittering train | D |
| And poverty's pale face beside | C |
| Asked aid and asked in vain | D |
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| The shops were filled from many lands | E |
| Toys silks and gems and flowers | F |
| The patient work of many hands | E |
| The hope of many hours | F |
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| Yet mid life's myriad shapes around | G |
| There was a sigh of death | H |
| There rose a melancholy sound | G |
| The bugle's wailing breath | H |
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| They played a mournful Scottish air | A |
| That on its native hill | I |
| Had caught the notes the night winds bear | A |
| From weeping leaf and rill | I |
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| 'Twas strange to hear that sad wild strain | D |
| Its warning music shed | J |
| Rising above life's busy train | D |
| In memory of the dead | J |
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| There came a slow and silent band | K |
| In sad procession by | L |
| Reversed the musket in each hand | K |
| And downcast every eye | L |
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| They bore the soldier to his grave | M |
| The sympathyzing crowd | N |
| Divided like a parted wave | M |
| By some dark vessel ploughed | N |
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| A moment and all sounds were mute | O |
| For awe was over all | P |
| You heard the soldier's measured foot | Q |
| The bugle's wailing call | P |
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| The gloves were laid upon the bier | R |
| The helmet and the sword | S |
| The drooping war horse followed near | T |
| As he too mourned his lord | S |
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| Slowly I followed too they led | J |
| To where a church arose | U |
| And flung a shadow o'er the dead | J |
| Deep as their own repose | U |
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| Green trees were there beneath the shade | V |
| Of one was made a grave | M |
| And there to his last rest was laid | V |
| The weary and the brave | M |
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| They fired a volley o'er the bed | J |
| Of an unconscious ear | R |
| The birds sprang fluttering overhead | J |
| Struck with a sudden fear | T |
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| All left the ground the bugles died | C |
| Away upon the wind | W |
| Only the tree's green branches sighed | C |
| O'er him they left behind | W |
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| Again all filled with light and breath | H |
| I passed the crowded street | X |
| Oh great extremes of life and death | H |
| How strangely do ye meet | X |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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