A Brook In The City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLL| The farmhouse lingers though averse to square | A |
| With the new city street it has to wear | A |
| A number in But what about the brook | B |
| That held the house as in an elbow crook | B |
| I ask as one who knew the brook its strength | C |
| And impulse having dipped a finger length | C |
| And made it leap my knuckle having tossed | D |
| A flower to try its currents where they crossed | D |
| The meadow grass could be cemented down | E |
| From growing under pavements of a town | E |
| The apple trees be sent to hearth stone flame | F |
| Is water wood to serve a brook the same | F |
| How else dispose of an immortal force | G |
| No longer needed Staunch it at its source | G |
| With cinder loads dumped down The brook was thrown | H |
| Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone | H |
| In fetid darkness still to live and run | I |
| And all for nothing it had ever done | I |
| Except forget to go in fear perhaps | J |
| No one would know except for ancient maps | J |
| That such a brook ran water But I wonder | K |
| If from its being kept forever under | K |
| The thoughts may not have risen that so keep | L |
| This new built city from both work and sleep | L |
Robert Frost
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