Angels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDFG HIBGJGKL IBBMGGFN| Elliot Ray Neiderland home from college | A |
| one winter hauling a load of Herefords | B |
| from Hogtown to Guymon with a pint of | C |
| Ezra Brooks and a copy of Rilke s Duineser | D |
| Elegien on the seat beside him saw the ass end | E |
| of his semi gliding around in the side mirror | D |
| as he hit ice and knew he would never live | F |
| to see graduation or the castle at Duino | G |
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| In the hospital head wrapped like a gift | H |
| the nurses had stuck a bow on top he said | I |
| four flaming angels crouched on the hood wings | B |
| spread so wide he couldn t see and then | G |
| the world collapsed We smiled and passed a flask | J |
| around Little Bill and I sang Your Cheatin | G |
| Heart and laughed and then a sudden quiet | K |
| put a hard edge on the morning and we left | L |
| - | |
| Siehe ich lebe Look I m alive he said | I |
| leaping down the hospital steps The nurses | B |
| waved white dresses puffed out like pigeons | B |
| in the morning breeze We roared off in my Dodge | M |
| Behold I come like a thief he shouted to the town | G |
| and gave his life to poetry He lives now | G |
| in the south of France His poems arrive | F |
| by mail and we read them and do not understand | N |
B H Fairchild
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