The Meeting-place Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCCDCC BEEEDEE BFFFDGG BHHHDII BJKKDFF LCCCCME E| A Warning | A |
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| I saw my fellows | B |
| In Poverty Street | C |
| Bitter and black with life's defeat | C |
| Ill fed ill housed of ills complete | C |
| And I said to myself | D |
| Surely death were sweet | C |
| To the people who live in Poverty Street | C |
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| I saw my fellows | B |
| In Market Place | E |
| Avid and anxious and hard of face | E |
| Sweating their souls in the Godless race | E |
| And I said to myself | D |
| How shall these find grace | E |
| Who tread Him to death in the Market Place | E |
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| I saw my fellows | B |
| In Vanity Fair | F |
| Revelling rollicking debonair | F |
| Life all a Gaudy Show never a care | F |
| And I said to myself | D |
| Is there place for these | G |
| In my Lord's well appointed policies | G |
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| I saw my fellows | B |
| In Old Church Row | H |
| Hot in discussion of things High and Low | H |
| Cold to the seething volcano below | H |
| And I said to myself | D |
| The leaven is dead | I |
| The salt has no savour The Spirit is fled | I |
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| I saw my fellows | B |
| As men and men | J |
| The Men of Pain and the Men of Gain | K |
| And the Men who lived in Gallanty Lane | K |
| And I said to myself | D |
| What if those should dare | F |
| To claim from these others their rightful share | F |
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| I saw them all | L |
| Where the Cross Roads meet | C |
| Vanity Fair and Poverty Street | C |
| And the Mart and the Church when the Red Drums beat | C |
| And summoned them all to The Great Court Leet | C |
| And I cried unto God | M |
| Now grant us Thy grace | E |
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| For that was a terrible Meeting Place | E |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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