A Street Corner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCAB DEDEFFDE GHGHDDGH IJIJKKIJ| Here where the thoroughfares meet at an angle | A |
| Of ninety degrees this angle is right | B |
| You may hear the loafers that jest and wrangle | A |
| Through the sun lit day and the lamp lit night | B |
| Though day be dreary and night be wet | C |
| You will find a ceaseless concourse met | C |
| Their laughter resounds and their Fife tongues jangle | A |
| And now and again their Fife fists fight | B |
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| Often here the voice of the crier | D |
| Heralds a sale in the City Hall | E |
| And slowly but surely drawing nigher | D |
| Is heard the baker's bugle call | E |
| The baker halts where the two ways meet | F |
| And the blast though loud is far from sweet | F |
| That with breath of bellows and heart of fire | D |
| He blows till the echoes leap from the wall | E |
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| And on Saturday night just after eleven | G |
| When the taverns have closed a moment ago | H |
| The vocal efforts of six or seven | G |
| Make the corner a place of woe | H |
| For the time is fitful the notes are queer | D |
| And it sounds to him who dwelleth near | D |
| Like the wailing for cats in a feline heaven | G |
| By orphan cats who are left below | H |
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| Wherefore O Bejant Son of the Morning | I |
| Fresh as a daisy dipt in the dew | J |
| Hearken to me and receive my warning | I |
| Though rents be heavy and bunks be few | J |
| And most of them troubled with rat or mouse | K |
| Never take rooms in a corner house | K |
| Or sackcloth and ashes and sad self scorning | I |
| Shall be for a portion unto you | J |
Robert Fuller Murray
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