Stravinsky's Three Pieces “grotesques”, For String Quartet: First Movement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHDIJFIIKLMFNO PQQRRSCSNTUUUVUWXUXU YZGN| Thin voiced nasal pipes | A |
| Drawing sound out and out | B |
| Until it is a screeching thread | C |
| Sharp and cutting sharp and cutting | D |
| It hurts | E |
| Whee e e | F |
| Bump Bump Tong ti bump | G |
| There are drums here | H |
| Banging | D |
| And wooden shoes beating the round grey stones | I |
| Of the market place | J |
| Whee e e | F |
| Sabots slapping the worn old stones | I |
| And a shaking and cracking of dancing bones | I |
| Clumsy and hard they are | K |
| And uneven | L |
| Losing half a beat | M |
| Because the stones are slippery | F |
| Bump e ty tong Whee e e Tong | N |
| The thin Spring leaves | O |
| Shake to the banging of shoes | P |
| Shoes beat slap | Q |
| Shuffle rap | Q |
| And the nasal pipes squeal with their pigs' voices | R |
| Little pigs' voices | R |
| Weaving among the dancers | S |
| A fine white thread | C |
| Linking up the dancers | S |
| Bang Bump Tong | N |
| Petticoats | T |
| Stockings | U |
| Sabots | U |
| Delirium flapping its thigh bones | U |
| Red blue yellow | V |
| Drunkenness steaming in colours | U |
| Red yellow blue | W |
| Colours and flesh weaving together | X |
| In and out with the dance | U |
| Coarse stuffs and hot flesh weaving together | X |
| Pigs' cries white and tenuous | U |
| White and painful | Y |
| White and | Z |
| Bump | G |
| Tong | N |
Amy Lowell
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