(end) Of Summer (1966) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL MND OP QRS| I'm tired of murdering children | A |
| Once long ago today they wanted to live | B |
| now I feel Vietnam the place | C |
| where rigor mortis is beginning to set in upon me | D |
| - | |
| I force silence down the throats of mutes | E |
| down the throats of mating cries of animals who know they are extinct | F |
| The chameleon's death soliloquy is your voice's pulse | G |
| your scorched forehead a constellation's suicide note | H |
| - | |
| A phonograph needle plunges through long black hair | I |
| and stone drips slowly into our veins | J |
| The earth has been squandered by the meek | K |
| And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk | L |
| - | |
| A baby is crying | M |
| In the swaddling pages | N |
| a baby | D |
| - | |
| 'Don't cry No Solomori's sword can | O |
| divide you from the sky | P |
| You are one Fly ' | - |
| - | |
| I'm tired so tired | Q |
| I have sleep to do | R |
| I have work to dream | S |
Bill Knott
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