Faces Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCC DECCCFGHC CCCCGIICJCCKLM ICNOICPQ CRGSTUHVC| A late snow beats | A |
| With cold white fists upon the tenements | B |
| Hurriedly drawing blinds and shutters | C |
| Like tall old slatterns | C |
| Pulling aprons about their heads | C |
| - | |
| Lights slanting out of Mott Street | D |
| Gibber out | E |
| Or dribble through bar room slits | C |
| Anonymous shapes | C |
| Conniving behind shuttered panes | C |
| Caper and disappear | F |
| Where the Bowery | G |
| Is throbbing like a fistula | H |
| Back of her ice scabbed fronts | C |
| - | |
| Livid faces | C |
| Glimmer in furtive doorways | C |
| Or spill out of the black pockets of alleys | C |
| Smears of faces like muddied beads | C |
| Making a ghastly rosary | G |
| The night mumbles over | I |
| And the snow with its devilish and silken whisper | I |
| Patrolling arcs | C |
| Blowing shrill blasts over the Bread Line | J |
| Stalk them as they pass | C |
| Silent as though accouched of the darkness | C |
| And the wind noses among them | K |
| Like a skunk | L |
| That roots about the heart | M |
| - | |
| Colder | I |
| And the Elevated slams upon the silence | C |
| Like a ponderous door | N |
| Then all is still again | O |
| Save for the wind fumbling over | I |
| The emptily swaying faces | C |
| The wind rummaging | P |
| Like an old Jew | Q |
| - | |
| Faces in glimmering rows | C |
| No sign of the abject life | R |
| Not even a blasphemy | G |
| But the spindle legs keep time | S |
| To a limping rhythm | T |
| And the shadows twitch upon the snow | U |
| Convulsively | H |
| As though death played | V |
| With some ungainly dolls | C |
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