London Types: Hawker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGG| Far out of bounds he'd figured in a race | A |
| Of West End traffic pitching to his loss | B |
| But if you'd see him in his proper place | A |
| Making the browns for bub and grub and doss | B |
| Go East among the merchants and their men | C |
| And where the press in noisiest and the tides | D |
| Of trade run highest and widest there and then | C |
| You shall behold him edging with equal strides | D |
| Along the kerb hawking in either hand | E |
| Some artful nothing made of twine and tin | F |
| Cardboard and foil and bits of rubber band | E |
| Some penn'orth of wit in fact that with a grin | F |
| The careful City marvels at and buys | G |
| For nurselings in the Suburbs to despise | G |
William Ernest Henley
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