Window Shopper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGFH IJIJAKAKLMLM NONOPQRSTUTUBVBVWWI stood before a candy shop | A |
Which with a Christmas radiance shone | B |
I saw my parents pass and stop | A |
To grin at me and then go on | C |
The sweets were heaped in gleamy rows | D |
On each I feasted what a game | E |
Against the glass with flatted nose | D |
Gulping my spittle as it came | E |
So still I stood and stared and dreamed | F |
Savouring sweetness with my eyes | G |
Devouring dainties till it seemed | F |
My candy shop was paradise | H |
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I had I think but five years old | I |
And though three score and ten have passed | J |
I still recall the craintive cold | I |
The grimy street the gritty blast | J |
And how I stared into that shop | A |
Its gifts so near and yet so far | K |
Of marzipan and toffee drop | A |
Of chocolate and walnut bar | K |
Imagining what I would buy | L |
Amid delights so rich and rare | M |
The glass was misted with my sigh | L |
If just one penny Pop could spare | M |
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And then when I went home to tea | N |
Of bread and butter sparsely spread | O |
Oh how my parents twitted me | N |
You stood for full an hour they said | O |
We saw you as we passed again | P |
Your eyes upon the sweets were glued | Q |
Your nose was flattened to the pane | R |
Like someone hypnotized you stood | S |
But when they laughed as at a joke | T |
A bitterness I could not stem | U |
Within my little heart awoke | T |
Oh I have long forgiven them | U |
For though I know they did no own | B |
Pennies to spare they might it seems | V |
More understanding love have shown | B |
More sympathy for those vain dreams | V |
Which make of me with wistful gaze | W |
God's Window Shopper all days | W |
Robert Service
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