Tarantula, Or The Dance Of Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEAE FGFH IJIJ KLKL AMAM NDNA| During the plague I came into my own | A |
| It was a time of smoke pots in the house | B |
| Against infection The blind head of bone | A |
| Grinned its abuse | C |
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| Like a good democrat at everyone | D |
| Runes were recited daily charms were applied | E |
| That was the time I came into my own | A |
| Half Europe died | E |
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| The symptoms are a fever and dark spots | F |
| First on the hands then on the face and neck | G |
| But even before the body the mind rots | F |
| You can be sick | H |
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| Only a day with it before you re dead | I |
| But the most curious part of it is the dance | J |
| The victim goes in short out of his head | I |
| A sort of trance | J |
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| Glazes the eyes and then the muscles take | K |
| His will away from him the legs begin | L |
| Their funeral jig the arms and belly shake | K |
| Like souls in sin | L |
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| Some caught in these convulsions have been known | A |
| To fall from windows fracturing the spine | M |
| Others have drowned in streams The smooth head stone | A |
| The box of pine | M |
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| Are not for the likes of these Moreover flame | N |
| Is powerless against contagion | D |
| That was the black winter when I came | N |
| Into my own | A |
Anthony Evan Hecht
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