A Poor Christian Looks At The Ghetto Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HBIAJKL MNOAPQL RSET UVWXW| Bees build around red liver | A |
| Ants build around black bone | B |
| It has begun the tearing the trampling on silks | C |
| It has begun the breaking of glass wood copper nickel silver foam | D |
| Of gypsum iron sheets violin strings trumpets leaves balls crystals | E |
| Poof Phosphorescent fire from yellow walls | F |
| Engulfs animal and human hair | G |
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| Bees build around the honeycomb of lungs | H |
| Ants build around white bone | B |
| Torn is paper rubber linen leather flax | I |
| Fiber fabrics cellulose snakeskin wire | A |
| The roof and the wall collapse in flame and heat seizes the foundations | J |
| Now there is only the earth sandy trodden down | K |
| With one leafless tree | L |
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| Slowly boring a tunnel a guardian mole makes his way | M |
| With a small red lamp fastened to his forehead | N |
| He touches buried bodies counts them pushes on | O |
| He distinguishes human ashes by their luminous vapor | A |
| The ashes of each man by a different part of the spectrum | P |
| Bees build around a red trace | Q |
| Ants build around the place left by my body | L |
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| I am afraid so afraid of the guardian mole | R |
| He has swollen eyelids like a Patriarch | S |
| Who has sat much in the light of candles | E |
| Reading the great book of the species | T |
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| What will I tell him I a Jew of the New Testament | U |
| Waiting two thousand years for the second coming of Jesus | V |
| My broken body will deliver me to his sight | W |
| And he will count me among the helpers of death | X |
| The uncircumcised | W |
Czeslaw Milosz
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