A Rhyme About An Electrical Advertising Sign Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGG HHIIJJAAJJKK| I look on the specious electrical light | A |
| Blatant mechanical crawling and white | A |
| Wickedly red or malignantly green | B |
| Like the beads of a young Senegambian queen | B |
| Showing while millions of souls hurry on | C |
| The virtues of collars from sunset till dawn | D |
| By dart or by tumble of whirl within whirl | E |
| Starting new fads for the shame weary girl | E |
| By maggoty motions in sickening line | F |
| Proclaiming a hat or a soup or a wine | F |
| While there far above the steep cliffs of the street | G |
| The stars sing a message elusive and sweet | G |
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| Now man cannot rest in his pleasure and toil | H |
| His clumsy contraptions of coil upon coil | H |
| Till the thing he invents in its use and its range | I |
| Leads on to the marvellous CHANGE BEYOND CHANGE | I |
| Some day this old Broadway shall climb to the skies | J |
| As a ribbon of cloud on a soul wind shall rise | J |
| And we shall be lifted rejoicing by night | A |
| Till we join with the planets who choir their delight | A |
| The signs in the street and the signs in the skies | J |
| Shall make a new Zodiac guiding the wise | J |
| And Broadway make one with that marvellous stair | K |
| That is climbed by the rainbow clad spirits of prayer | K |
Vachel Lindsay
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