Angels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDFG HIBGJGKL IBBMGGFNElliot 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 |
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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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