(desire)threadbare(desires) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCD EFGH IJH KLM| i to S i | A |
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| The light lay in shreds across the bed | B |
| only your waking could make it whole | C |
| resuming its costume of day its role | C |
| which seems to overnight get ragged | D |
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| Fate latent as weights in theater | E |
| curtainhems what soul is sewn here | F |
| to be rung down at last divested | G |
| of these disguises But if we are | H |
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| bared by such cloth as cries in this | I |
| lament for the sun's fragility | J |
| would I dare now to shake you astir | H |
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| to drape over you my shadow whose | K |
| myth ex machina remains all mine | L |
| mine and therefore torn from yours | M |
Bill Knott
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