After Us Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEAFG HIJKA LMN OPQRS TUVAW| I don't know if we're in the beginning | A |
| or in the final stage | B |
| Tomas Transtr ouml mer | C |
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| Rain is falling through the roof | D |
| And all that prospered under the sun | E |
| the books that opened in the morning | A |
| and closed at night and all day | F |
| turned their pages to the light | G |
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| the sketches of boats and strong forearms | H |
| and clever faces and of fields | I |
| and barns and of a bowl of eggs | J |
| and lying across the piano | K |
| the silver stick of a flute everything | A |
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| invented and imagined | L |
| everything whispered and sung | M |
| all silenced by cold rain | N |
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| The sky is the color of gravestones | O |
| The rain tastes like salt and rises | P |
| in the streets like a ruinous tide | Q |
| We spoke of millions of billions of years | R |
| We talked and talked | S |
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| Then a drop of rain fell | T |
| into the sound hole of the guitar another | U |
| onto the unmade bed And after us | V |
| the rain will cease or it will go on falling | A |
| even upon itself | W |
Connie Wanek
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