The City Clocks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC CC AA DE| THE City clocks point out the hours | A |
| They look like moons on their darkened towers | A |
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| And I who was shown my destination | B |
| Thrice but have no sense of location | B |
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| Am back again at one or the other | C |
| Looming clocks that have changed the figure | C |
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| Moments a thousand have hurried over | C |
| And the sought place is as far as ever | C |
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| The City clocks point out the hours | A |
| They look like moons on their darkened towers | A |
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| That Time and Place are a tangled skein | D |
| Their mingled strokes say over again | E |
Padraic Colum
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