Niagara Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBDDE AFABGGE BHBBIIE JKJBLLE MFMBDDE NONBDDE A BPBBDDEE| I | A |
| - | |
| Within the town of Buffalo | B |
| Are prosy men with leaden eyes | C |
| Like ants they worry to and fro | B |
| Important men in Buffalo | B |
| But only twenty miles away | D |
| A deathless glory is at play | D |
| Niagara Niagara | E |
| - | |
| The women buy their lace and cry | A |
| O such a delicate design | F |
| And over ostrich feathers sigh | A |
| By counters there in Buffalo | B |
| The children haunt the trinket shops | G |
| They buy false faces bells and tops | G |
| Forgetting great Niagara | E |
| - | |
| Within the town of Buffalo | B |
| Are stores with garnets sapphires pearls | H |
| Rubies emeralds aglow | B |
| Opal chains in Buffalo | B |
| Cherished symbols of success | I |
| They value not your rainbow dress | I |
| Niagara Niagara | E |
| - | |
| The shaggy meaning of her name | J |
| This Buffalo this recreant town | K |
| Sharps and lawyers prune and tame | J |
| Few pioneers in Buffalo | B |
| Except young lovers flushed and fleet | L |
| And winds hallooing down the street | L |
| Niagara Niagara | E |
| - | |
| The journalists are sick of ink | M |
| Boy prodigals are lost in wine | F |
| By night where white and red lights blink | M |
| The eyes of Death in Buffalo | B |
| And only twenty miles away | D |
| Are starlit rocks and healing spray | D |
| Niagara Niagara | E |
| - | |
| Above the town a tiny bird | N |
| A shining speck at sleepy dawn | O |
| Forgets the ant hill so absurd | N |
| This self important Buffalo | B |
| Descending twenty miles away | D |
| He bathes his wings at break of day | D |
| Niagara Niagara | E |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| What marching men of Buffalo | B |
| Flood the streets in rash crusade | P |
| Fools to free the world they go | B |
| Primeval hearts from Buffalo | B |
| Red cataracts of France today | D |
| Awake three thousand miles away | D |
| An echo of Niagara | E |
| The cataract Niagara | E |
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