Ramsgate Dans La Pluie. (Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker

Maidstone, in England, is a town in Kent, south-east of London. Ramsgate is a seaside resort town on the south-east coast of England. The man and his girlfriend took a train from Maidstone to Ramsgate, the previous Sunday, a rainy day. The couple had lunch in a cafe, took up smoking again, then shopped for souvenirs. They went into an amusement arcade, where there are video shops and cinemas.The looked at the small Ramsgate Harbour. He found it was a romantic Sunday, even though it was raining.
The refrain 'Ramsgate, in the rain' is effective and is a feature of the ballad form. There are four quatrains, rhyming: abcb/bbdb/bbeb/fbgb. The rhymes are intricate and interlocked, linking the 4 stanzas.
This quite simple, romantic ballad appealed to me a lot. 'Persil' is the brand name of a washing powder. I still buy Persil.
Related song: ' Penny Arcade', by Roy Orbison.