Window Shopper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGFH IJIJAKAKLMLM NONOPQRSTUTUBVBVWW| I 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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