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The Wedding Of The Towns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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From Arthur Selwyn's Note book	A
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The Wedding Of The Towns	B
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Let all of the bells ring clear	C
And all of the flags be seen	D
The King of the Western Hemisphere	C
Has married the Island Queen	D
For years he watched and waited	E
Along the river side	F
And vowed that she was fated	G
To be his own fair bride	F
Full many a night he wooed her	H
Upon her lofty throne	I
And he hath long pursued her	H
To make the prize his own	I
Nor thankless his endeavor	H
Nor coy the royal maid	J
But like true love's course ever	H
The banns were long delayed	J
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And boys to men had grown	I
And men their graves had sought	K
The gulf was yet between them thrown	I
And the wooing came to nought	K
Though couriers oft were dashing	L
'Twixt him and his adored	K
Still was the river flashing	L
Between them like a sword	K
In heart they well were mated	K
And patiently and long	M
They for each other waited	K
These lovers true and strong	M
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Let never a flag be hidden	N
Let never a bell be dumb	O
The guests have all been bidden	P
The wedding day has come	O
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For many a golden year	C
Shall gleam this silvery tie	K
The wondering world will gather here	Q
And gaze with gleaming eye	K
Philosophers will ponder	H
How blessed by the hand of Heaven	N
The world has another wonder	H
To add to its famous seven	N
Philanthropists will linger	H
To view the giant span	R
And point with grateful finger	H
Where man has toiled for man	R
And all will bless the year	C
When in the May month green	D
The King of the Western Hemisphere	C
Was wed to the Island Queen	D
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Written on the occasion of the opening of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge	S
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From Farmer Harrington's Calendar	H
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JULY	K
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Wealth wealth wealth wealth with iron bars to defend it	K
And seventeen hundred thousand ways to spend it	K
How men will work in home and foreign lands	T
To get a lot of money in their hands	T
How they will bar and bolt by night and day	K
To keep some one from stealing it away	K
Then when a fresh bait strikes their fancy's eye	K
How easy 'tis to make them let it fly	K
Lock up your cash in places howe'er strong	M
You lose it when the right thief comes along	M
There are some families that I could name	U
Who spring and fall and winter toil the same	U
As boys with sleds for half an hour will climb	V
To ride back in about five minutes' time	V
These fam'lies pinched and starved nine months will be	W
To make a first class show the other three	W
And some whose fortunes sprung up like a flame	U
Can puff it out even quicker than it came	U
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These thoughts grew like June corn the other day	K
As I through Coney Island picked my way	K
And found there pert and prosperous as could be	W
A land and water city by the sea	W
And people holding in free easy style	X
A Fourth of July picnic all the while	X
Thousands were eating there amid the din	P
As though they'd hardly time to do it in	P
Thousands were loitering in the breezy air	Y
As if they had a year or two to spare	Y
And every trap that ever caught a dime	V
Was ready set and baited all the time	V
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The ocean to my unaccustomed view	Z
Seemed having quite a lively picnic too	Z
The waves came slamming at us with a roar	A2
And chased each other pell mell to the shore	A2
And in these waves and adding to the noise	B2
A lot of men and women girls and boys	B2
Dressed in a style that made my good wife frown	C2
Like big sized corks went bobbing up and down	C2
Some glided out and in like jumping jacks	D2
Some rode the waves a lying on their backs	D2
And some as decent folks as one could see	W
Made capers that were very queer to see	W
I noticed Miss Dooz ll much versed in books	E2
And quite particular about her looks	E2
And dignified as any one I know	F2
Roll over maybe thirteen times or so	F2
While Jeremiah Jipson LL D	W
Who seldom makes a move above the knee	W
And who all former signs would seem to say	K
Never indulges in unseemly play	K
When an irreverent wave he chanced to meet	K
Stood on his head and raised aloft his feet	K
The Ocean has no awe for any one	N
And always seems to get more'n half the fun	N
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But how the pretty children carry sail	G2
Each with his tiny shovel and his pail	G2
Each working his own little piece of land	K
And making small plantations in the sand	K
These little incidents show on their face	H2
That farming's natural to the human race	H2
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When God's poor pretty ones 'mid summer's blaze	I2
Have lived 'mongst brick and mortar all their days	I2
Trying their best to blossom and not spoil	J2
Like house plants kidnapped from their native soil	J2
It must be heaven to sit here in the sand	K
And take old Mother Earth right by the hand	K
To lie here by no brick blocks overlooked	K
And take a breath of air that hasn't been cooked	K
God bless you children May't a long time be	W
Before the sand shall cover you and me	W
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Yes every trap that ever caught a dime	V
Is ready set and baited all the time	V
Here nigh the shore a strange machine I found	K
To see how hard with beetles men could pound	K
And several fellows tried it o'er and o'er	H
Who never handled labor so before	A2
And would have shown capacity to shirk	K2
If they had known how much it looked like work	K2
Here round and round I saw a big wheel go	F2
Like an old fashioned horse power larger though	F2
And worked by steam and on the sweeps one finds	L2
Big wooden animals of different kinds	L2
Elephants horses birds of various hues	M2
Lions and leopards roosters kangaroos	M2
All staring with great stupid wondering eyes	N2
And all about the very self same size	N2
And on these beasts sixteen times round or more	A2
Rode children of from fifty down to four	A2
While some big sized hand organ filled the air	Y
With crack voiced music plenty and to spare	Y
Here a big premium cow quite dead alas	O2
Gave milkman's milk and water by the glass	O2
Here were some great museums which consisted	K
Of wondrous things that never have existed	K
There omnibuses hover on your track	P2
Ready to draw you somewhere else and back	P2
Here marine railroads as you onward plod	K
Will take you riding at five cents a rod	K
This elevator lifts you pretty high	K
And shows you men must look small from the sky	K
Yon gambling den will send you from its door	A2
Poorer and not much wiser than before	A2
That fellow there will in an ocean view	Z
Your picture take and swear that it is you	Z
Yes every trap that ever caught a dime	V
Is ready set and baited all the time	V
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And sometimes everything seems blurred indeed	K
With man's surprising wickedness and greed	K
Till you most feel there's nothing genuine there	Y
Excepting ocean waves and open air	Y
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But still they can't put all God's plans to death	Q2
To let the people have an honest breath	Q2
And so while thinking it all up to day	K
I finally felt called upon to say	K
Thank the good Lord from whom all blessings fall	R2
For making Coney Island after all	R2
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My cousin Abdiel Stebbins large and slow	F2
Arrived at Ocean Grove some days ago	F2
He stopped off in this city on the way	K
And stayed here with us two weeks and one day	K
For we keep up our airy home in town	C2
Whether the mercury goes up or down	C2
Not liking to exchange it very well	S2
For a small sweat box in a large hotel	S2
He promised that the first hour he could spare	Y
He'd write us how he liked it over there	Y
The letter like himself is rather queer	C
Perhaps I'd better paste it right in here	Q