Garden Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLLMMNNOOPPJJQQRRSS TTUUVVWWXXYYZZPP| LONG and drowsy and white and wide | A |
| Villas and arbours on either side | A |
| Pleasant under the cloudless skies | B |
| Garden Street in the sunlight lies | B |
| Twice a day at the morning hour | C |
| And again when the lights of sunset flower | C |
| Its pavements ring to the footfall noise | D |
| Of men and women and girls and boys | D |
| Townward sprightly of foot they go | E |
| Home they come in the evening glow | E |
| Labours over and questing done | F |
| Some with money and some with none | F |
| Most hours through from morn to night | G |
| It dreams and dreams in the drowsy light | G |
| No call is there of the huckster clan | H |
| Of the bottle oh and the rabbit man | H |
| Wafted odours of nameless flowers | I |
| Perfume the march of the golden hours | I |
| Under the laurels cooling the eye | J |
| Pools of shade in the sunshine lie | J |
| All day long and night long too | K |
| Sunlight sweetened or washed by dew | K |
| Leaf and petal and fern and palm | L |
| Open their lungs out breathing balm | L |
| Now the cooing of doves is heard | M |
| Now the song of a single bird | M |
| Beetles drone and the murmuring bees | N |
| Make their round of the flowers and trees | N |
| Echoes alone of the trouble and strife | O |
| Stir and flurry and noise of life | O |
| Hints alone of its fever and heat | P |
| Steal through the quiet of Garden Street | P |
| Traffic and Trade with eyes awry | J |
| Seek the city and pass it by | J |
| Few daylong through its distance wend | Q |
| With money to make or money to spend | Q |
| Yet yesterday when the moon was sped | R |
| Up and down with a furtive tread | R |
| Lounged a rogue with a wistful smile | S |
| Whistling a jig on the wind the while | S |
| Twice or thrice in the stirless trance | T |
| Stilling his feet he paused to glance | T |
| Over the way to the vine clad gate | U |
| Where the laurels droop and the poppies wait | U |
| Rogue and robber and fool I swear | V |
| Love was the plunder that brought him there | V |
| Love that laughed through a curtain of green | W |
| Watching his tricks the while I ween | W |
| Rogue and robber he went away | X |
| Sour and sick at the end of day | X |
| Empty of hope and sad to see | Y |
| For bolt and bar on her heart had she | Y |
| She who lives in the Doric house | Z |
| Secret and shy as a little mouse | Z |
| Dainty and dear from head to feet | P |
| Pansy Princess of Garden Street | P |
Roderic Quinn
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