The Crowded Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJKJ LMLM NGNG FOFB PQPQ RSRT UVUV| Let me move slowly through the street | A |
| Filled with an ever shifting train | B |
| Amid the sound of steps that beat | A |
| The murmuring walks like autumn rain | B |
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| How fast the flitting figures come | C |
| The mild the fierce the stony face | D |
| Some bright with thoughtless smiles and some | C |
| Where secret tears have left their trace | D |
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| They pass to toil to strife to rest | E |
| To halls in which the feast is spread | F |
| To chambers where the funeral guest | E |
| In silence sits beside the dead | F |
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| And some to happy homes repair | G |
| Where children pressing cheek to cheek | H |
| With mute caresses shall declare | G |
| The tenderness they cannot speak | H |
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| And some who walk in calmness here | I |
| Shall shudder as they reach the door | J |
| Where one who made their dwelling dear | K |
| Its flower its light is seen no more | J |
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| Youth with pale cheek and slender frame | L |
| And dreams of greatness in thine eye | M |
| Goest thou to build an early name | L |
| Or early in the task to die | M |
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| Keen son of trade with eager brow | N |
| Who is now fluttering in thy snare | G |
| Thy golden fortunes tower they now | N |
| Or melt the glittering spires in air | G |
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| Who of this crowd to night shall tread | F |
| The dance till daylight gleam again | O |
| Who sorrow o'er the untimely dead | F |
| Who writhe in throes of mortal pain | B |
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| Some famine struck shall think how long | P |
| The cold dark hours how slow the light | Q |
| And some who flaunt amid the throng | P |
| Shall hide in dens of shame to night | Q |
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| Each where his tasks or pleasures call | R |
| They pass and heed each other not | S |
| There is who heeds who holds them all | R |
| In his large love and boundless thought | T |
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| These struggling tides of life that seem | U |
| In wayward aimless course to tend | V |
| Are eddies of the mighty stream | U |
| That rolls to its appointed end | V |
William Cullen Bryant
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