The Andante Of Snakes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFE GHGH IJIJ| They weave a slow andante as in sleep | A |
| Scaled yellow swampy black plague spotted white | B |
| With blue and lidless eyes at watch they keep | A |
| A treachery of silence infinite | C |
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| Ancestral angers brood in these dull eyes | D |
| Where the long lineaged venom of the snake | E |
| Meditates evil woven intricacies | F |
| Of Oriental arabesque awake | E |
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| Unfold expand contract and raise and sway | G |
| Swoln heart shaped heads flattened as by a heel | H |
| Erect to suck the sunlight from the day | G |
| And stealthily and gradually reveal | H |
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| Dim cabalistic signs of spots and rings | I |
| Among their folds of faded tapestry | J |
| Then these fat foul unbreathing moving things | I |
| Droop back to stagnant immobility | J |
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