The Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCDEDEDAEDE| Here is a long and silent street | A |
| I walk in blackness and I stumble and fall | B |
| and rise and I walk blind my feet | A |
| trampling the silent stones and the dry leaves | C |
| Someone behind me also tramples stones leaves | C |
| if I slow down he slows | D |
| if I run he runs I turn nobody | E |
| Everything dark and doorless | D |
| only my steps aware of me | E |
| I turning and turning among these corners | D |
| which lead forever to the street | A |
| where nobody waits for nobody follows me | E |
| where I pursue a man who stumbles | D |
| and rises and says when he sees me nobody | E |
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