King And John Streets (for Isabella Vacancy Crawford) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJ KLMNLOPQRS TUVWVVLVXYV| When the shadows are hungry | A |
| animals on walls | B |
| and theatre goers are | C |
| parliamentarians engaged | D |
| in a repast or feast | E |
| of words | F |
| the lone house stands | G |
| as a stone shard or sliver | H |
| about to disengage itself | I |
| from the eye | J |
| - | |
| For behind boulders of tenement | K |
| walls and vines creeping | L |
| to match the red brick of | M |
| sumac and the parrot bill of fire escape stairs | N |
| I watch the building | L |
| cylindrical in the darkness | O |
| crouching thin air | P |
| as if an awkward child | Q |
| were about to make strange | R |
| for the dozenth time | S |
| - | |
| There are few things to duplicate | T |
| plaster held by the bite of wind | U |
| open poverty like lesions | V |
| refusing to move | W |
| neglect that festers | V |
| to pop the endless seams | V |
| of the mind like burning | L |
| radiator caps | V |
| scalding water to lighten | X |
| the lanced up eyes of vermin who | Y |
| lather these swollen rooms | V |
Paul Cameron Brown
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