The Marketplace Sweeper Rhyme Scheme

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"The Fireplace Sweeper" involves six quatrains, each after the AABB rhyme conspire, with two rhyming couplets for every quatrain. The main stanza presents the speaker, a young man who has been constrained by conditions into the unsafe control of stack sweeper. The second stanza presents Tom Dacre, a kindred stack clear who goes about as a thwart to the speaker. Tom is vexed about his present situation, so the speaker solaces him until the point that he nods off. The following three stanzas describe Tom Dacre's to some degree prophetically calamitous dream of the stack sweepers' "paradise." Be that as it may, the last stanza discovers Tom getting up the next morning, with him and the speaker still caught in their hazardous profession.

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