Thesaurus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHIJCKLM NOPQPRS TUJVWX YYZA2B2C2D2E| It could be the name of a prehistoric beast | A |
| that roamed the Paleozoic earth rising up | B |
| on its hind legs to show off its large vocabulary | C |
| or some lover in a myth who is metamorphosed into a book | D |
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| It means treasury but it is just a place | E |
| where words congregate with their relatives | F |
| a big park where hundreds of family reunions | G |
| are always being held | H |
| house home abode dwelling lodgings and digs | I |
| all sharing the same picnic basket and thermos | J |
| hairy hirsute woolly furry fleecy and shaggy | C |
| all running a sack race or throwing horseshoes | K |
| inert static motionless fixed and immobile | L |
| standing and kneeling in rows for a group photograph | M |
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| Here father is next to sire and brother close | N |
| to sibling separated only by fine shades of meaning | O |
| And every group has its odd cousin the one | P |
| who traveled the farthest to be here | Q |
| astereognosis polydipsia or some eleven | P |
| syllable unpronounceable substitute for the word tool | R |
| Even their own relatives have to squint at their name tags | S |
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| I can see my own copy up on a high shelf | T |
| I rarely open it because I know there is no | U |
| such thing as a synonym and because I get nervous | J |
| around people who always assemble with their own kind | V |
| forming clubs and nailing signs to closed front doors | W |
| while others huddle alone in the dark streets | X |
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| I would rather see words out on their own away | Y |
| from their families and the warehouse of Roget | Y |
| wandering the world where they sometimes fall | Z |
| in love with a completely different word | A2 |
| Surely you have seen pairs of them standing forever | B2 |
| next to each other on the same line inside a poem | C2 |
| a small chapel where weddings like these | D2 |
| between perfect strangers can take place | E |
Billy Collins
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