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A Town Window

John Drinkwater 1882 ( Leytonstone, London, ) – 1937 ( London)



Beyond my window in the night
Is but a drab inglorious street,
Yet there the frost and clean starlight
As over Warwick woods are sweet.

Under the grey drift of the town
The crocus works among the mould
As eagerly as those that crown
The Warwick spring in flame and gold.

And when the tramway down the hill
Across the cobbles moans and rings,
There is about my window-sill
The tumult of a thousand wings.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 398
Words 77
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

John Drinkwater

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