Adapted from Robert Southey, "The Legend of Bishop Hatto" and from John Gould Fletcher, "London Excursion"

 - The summer and autumn had been so wet,
That in winter the corn was growing yet:
'Twas a sorrowful sight to see, all around,
The grain lie rotting on the ground.
 - Black shapes bending,
Taxicabs crush in the crowd.
The tops are each a shining square
Shuttles that steadily press through woolly fabric.
This poem uses end rhyme. Its rhymes come at the end of its lines.
That in winter the corn was growing yet:
The grain lie rotting on the ground.