Broadway Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEFB GHIJK LBMNBOABABAPQR PASTHOU VWXYZBA2A2 PMFA| Light | A |
| Innumerable ions of light | A |
| Kindling irradiating | B |
| All to their foci tending | B |
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| Light that jingles like anklet chains | C |
| On bevies of little lithe twinkling feet | D |
| Or clingles in myriad vibrations | E |
| Like trillions of porcelain | F |
| Vases shattering | B |
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| Light over the laminae of roofs | G |
| Diffusing in shimmering nebulae | H |
| About the night's boundaries | I |
| Or billowing in pearly foam | J |
| Submerging the low lying stars | K |
| - | |
| Light for the feast prolonged | L |
| Captive light in the goblets quivering | B |
| Sparks evanescent | M |
| Struck of meeting looks | N |
| Fringed eyelids leashing | B |
| Sheathed and leaping lights | O |
| Infinite bubbles of light | A |
| Bursting reforming | B |
| Silvery filings of light | A |
| Incessantly falling | B |
| Scintillant sided dust of light | A |
| Out of the white flares of Broadway | P |
| Like a great spurious diamond | Q |
| In the night's corsage faceted | R |
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| Broadway | P |
| In ambuscades of light | A |
| Drawing the charmed multitudes | S |
| With the slow suction of her breath | T |
| Dangling her naked soul | H |
| Behind the blinding gold of eunuch lights | O |
| That wind about her like a bodyguard | U |
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| Or like a huge serpent iridescent scaled | V |
| Trailing her coruscating length | W |
| Over the night prostrate | X |
| Triumphant poised | Y |
| Her hydra heads above the avenues | Z |
| Values appraising | B |
| And her avid eyes | A2 |
| Glistening with eternal watchfulness | A2 |
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| Broadway | P |
| Out of her towers rampant | M |
| Like an unsubtle courtezan | F |
| Reserving nought for some adventurous night | A |
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