Night Air Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB CDD EFG HII JKK LMB INN OPP QRR| If God is Art then what do we make | A |
| of Jasper Johns One never knows | B |
| what sort of question a patient will pose | B |
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| or how exactly one should answer | C |
| Outside the window snow on snow | D |
| began to answer the ground below | D |
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| with nothing more than foolish questions | E |
| We were no different I asked again | F |
| Professor have we eased the pain | G |
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| Eventually he'd answer me with | H |
| Tell me young man whom do you love | I |
| E I'd say None of the Above | I |
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| and laugh for lack of something more | J |
| to add For days he had played that game | K |
| and day after day I avoided your name | K |
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| by instinct I never told him how | L |
| we often wear each other's clothes | M |
| we aren't what many presuppose | B |
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| Call it an act of omission my love | I |
| Tonight while walking to the car | N |
| I said your name to the evening star | N |
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| clearly pronouncing the syllables | O |
| to see your name dissipate | P |
| in the air evaporate | P |
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| Only the night air carries your words | Q |
| up to the dead the ancients wrote | R |
| I watched them rise become remote | R |
C. Dale Young
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