Trafalgar Square Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA BBCB CCDC DDEF EEGE GGHG HHIH IIJI KK LLML| These verses have I pilfered like a bee | A |
| Out of a letter from my C C C | A |
| In London showing what befell him there | B |
| With other things of interest to me | A |
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| One page described a night in open air | B |
| He spent last summer in Trafalgar Square | B |
| With men and women who by want are driven | C |
| Thither for lodging when the nights are fair | B |
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| No roof there is between their heads and heaven | C |
| No warmth but what by ragged clothes is given | C |
| No comfort but the company of those | D |
| Who with despair like them have vainly striven | C |
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| On benches there uneasily they doze | D |
| Snatching brief morsels of a poor repose | D |
| And if through weariness they might sleep sound | E |
| Their eyes must open almost ere they close | F |
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| With even tramp upon the paven ground | E |
| Twice every hour the night patrol comes round | E |
| To clear these wretches off who may not keep | G |
| The miserable couches they have found | E |
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| Yet the stern shepherds of the poor black sheep | G |
| Will soften when they see a woman weep | G |
| There was a mother there who strove in vain | H |
| With sobs to hush a starving child to sleep | G |
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| And through the night which took so long to wane | H |
| He saw sad sufferers relieving pain | H |
| And daughters of iniquity and scorn | I |
| Performing deeds which God will not disdain | H |
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| There was a girl forlorn of the forlorn | I |
| Whose dress was white but draggled soiled and torn | I |
| Who wandered like a ghost without a home | J |
| She spoke to him before the day was born | I |
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| She who all night when spoken to was dumb | K |
| Earning dislike from most abuse from some | K |
| Now asked the hour and when he told her Two ' | - |
| Wailed O my God will daylight never come ' | - |
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| Yes it will come and change the sky anew | L |
| From star besprinkled black to sunlit blue | L |
| And bring sweet thoughts and innocent desires | M |
| To countless girls What will it bring to you | L |
Robert Fuller Murray
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