The Answer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HGAAAIJ KA LGMNOPQRGGAS| You have spoken the answer | A |
| A child searches far sometimes | B |
| Into the red dust | C |
| On a dark rose leaf | D |
| And so you have gone far | E |
| For the answer is | F |
| Silence | G |
| - | |
| In the republic | H |
| Of the winking stars and spent cataclysms | G |
| Sure we are it is off there the answer | A |
| is hidden and folded over | A |
| Sleeping in the sun careless whether | A |
| it is Sunday or any other day of | I |
| the week | J |
| - | |
| Knowing silence will bring all one way | K |
| or another | A |
| - | |
| Have we not seen | L |
| Purple of the pansy | G |
| out of the mulch | M |
| and mold | N |
| crawl | O |
| into a dusk | P |
| of velvet | Q |
| blur of yellow | R |
| Almost we thought from nowwhere but it was | G |
| the silence | G |
| the future | A |
| working | S |
Carl Sandburg
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