Silent Letters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HCICJKL JMNJOPQ RSJJTJU AVAWXJJ YJZJA2B2J| Treacherous as trap door spiders | A |
| they ambush children's innocence | B |
| Why is there g h in light It isn't fair | C |
| Buddha declared the world illusory | D |
| as the p sound in psyche Sartre | E |
| said the same of God from France | F |
| Olympus of silent letters n'est ce pas | G |
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| Polite conceals an e in the same way | H |
| How are you hides I don't care | C |
| Physics asserts the desk I lean on | I |
| the brush that fluffs my hair | C |
| are only dots that punctuate a nullity | J |
| complete as the g sound in gnome | K |
| the c e in Worcestershire | L |
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| Passions lurk under the saint's bed | J |
| mute as the end of love | M |
| They glide toward us yellow eyes | N |
| gleaming hushed as the finality | J |
| of hate malice snake | O |
| As easily predict the h in lichen | P |
| choral Lichtenstein | Q |
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| as laws against throttling rats | R |
| making U turns on empty streets | S |
| Such nonsense must be memorized | J |
| Imagine dropkicking a spud | J |
| Dad said If e breaks off | T |
| your toe it spoils your potato | J |
| Like compass needles | U |
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| pointing north silent letters | A |
| show the power of hidden things | V |
| Voiced by our ancestors | A |
| but heard no more they nudge | W |
| our thoughts toward death | X |
| infinity our senses' inability | J |
| to see the earth as round | J |
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| circling the sun in a universe | Y |
| implacable as Might Makes Right | J |
| ineffable as tomorrow's second r | Z |
| incomprehensible as imbroglio's g | J |
| the e that finishes inscrutable | A2 |
| imponderable immense | B2 |
| the terrifying k in I don't know | J |
Charles Harper Webb
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