Vocation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGDHGIJKLMGNOPQ ROSTUV| When the gong sounds ten in the morning and I walk to school by our | A |
| lane | B |
| Every day I meet the hawker crying Bangles crystal | C |
| bangles | D |
| There is nothing to hurry him on there is no road he must | E |
| take no place he must go to no time when he must come home | F |
| I wish I were a hawker spending my day in the road crying | G |
| Bangles crystal bangles | D |
| When at four in the afternoon I come back from the school | H |
| I can see through the gate of that house the gardener digging | G |
| the ground | I |
| He does what he likes with his spade he soils his clothes | J |
| with dust nobody takes him to task if he gets baked in the sun or | K |
| gets wet | L |
| I wish I were a gardener digging away at the garden with | M |
| nobody to stop me from digging | G |
| Just as it gets dark in the evening and my mother sends me to | N |
| bed | O |
| I can see through my open window the watchman walking up and | P |
| down | Q |
| The lane is dark and lonely and the street lamp stands like | R |
| a giant with one red eye in its head | O |
| The watchman swings his lantern and walks with his shadow at | S |
| his side and never once goes to bed in his life | T |
| I wish I were a watchman walking the streets all night | U |
| chasing the shadows with my lantern | V |
Rabindranath Tagore
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