Window Shopper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGFH IJIJAKAKLMLM NONOPQRSTUTUBVBVWW

I stood before a candy shopA
Which with a Christmas radiance shoneB
I saw my parents pass and stopA
To grin at me and then go onC
The sweets were heaped in gleamy rowsD
On each I feasted what a gameE
Against the glass with flatted noseD
Gulping my spittle as it cameE
So still I stood and stared and dreamedF
Savouring sweetness with my eyesG
Devouring dainties till it seemedF
My candy shop was paradiseH
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I had I think but five years oldI
And though three score and ten have passedJ
I still recall the craintive coldI
The grimy street the gritty blastJ
And how I stared into that shopA
Its gifts so near and yet so farK
Of marzipan and toffee dropA
Of chocolate and walnut barK
Imagining what I would buyL
Amid delights so rich and rareM
The glass was misted with my sighL
If just one penny Pop could spareM
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And then when I went home to teaN
Of bread and butter sparsely spreadO
Oh how my parents twitted meN
You stood for full an hour they saidO
We saw you as we passed againP
Your eyes upon the sweets were gluedQ
Your nose was flattened to the paneR
Like someone hypnotized you stoodS
But when they laughed as at a jokeT
A bitterness I could not stemU
Within my little heart awokeT
Oh I have long forgiven themU
For though I know they did no ownB
Pennies to spare they might it seemsV
More understanding love have shownB
More sympathy for those vain dreamsV
Which make of me with wistful gazeW
God's Window Shopper all daysW

Robert Service



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