Robert Fuller Murray

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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 beeA
Out of a letter from my C C CA
In London showing what befell him thereB
With other things of interest to meA
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One page described a night in open airB
He spent last summer in Trafalgar SquareB
With men and women who by want are drivenC
Thither for lodging when the nights are fairB
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No roof there is between their heads and heavenC
No warmth but what by ragged clothes is givenC
No comfort but the company of thoseD
Who with despair like them have vainly strivenC
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On benches there uneasily they dozeD
Snatching brief morsels of a poor reposeD
And if through weariness they might sleep soundE
Their eyes must open almost ere they closeF
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With even tramp upon the paven groundE
Twice every hour the night patrol comes roundE
To clear these wretches off who may not keepG
The miserable couches they have foundE
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Yet the stern shepherds of the poor black sheepG
Will soften when they see a woman weepG
There was a mother there who strove in vainH
With sobs to hush a starving child to sleepG
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And through the night which took so long to waneH
He saw sad sufferers relieving painH
And daughters of iniquity and scornI
Performing deeds which God will not disdainH
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There was a girl forlorn of the forlornI
Whose dress was white but draggled soiled and tornI
Who wandered like a ghost without a homeJ
She spoke to him before the day was bornI
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She who all night when spoken to was dumbK
Earning dislike from most abuse from someK
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 anewL
From star besprinkled black to sunlit blueL
And bring sweet thoughts and innocent desiresM
To countless girls What will it bring to youL

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