At The Railway Station, Upway Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDAB CAEFGHHIIDD| There is not much that I can do | A |
| For I've no money that's quite my own | B |
| Spoke up the pitying child | C |
| A little boy with a violin | D |
| At the station before the train came in | D |
| But I can play my fiddle to you | A |
| And a nice one 'tis and good in tone | B |
| - | |
| The man in the handcuffs smiled | C |
| The constable looked and he smiled too | A |
| As the fiddle began to twang | E |
| And the man in the handcuffs suddenly sang | F |
| Uproariously | G |
| This life so free | H |
| Is the thing for me | H |
| And the constable smiled and said no word | I |
| As if unconscious of what he heard | I |
| And so they went on till the train came in | D |
| The convict and boy with the violin | D |
Thomas Hardy
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