Artificer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC A DA A EAAFGH IJKLMANAAA| Burning he walks in the stream of flickering letters clarinets | A |
| machines throbbing quicker than the heart lopped off heads silk | B |
| canvases and he stops under the sky | C |
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| and raises toward it his joined clenched fists | A |
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| Believers fall on their bellies they suppose it is a monstrance that | D |
| shines | A |
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| but those are knuckles sharp knuckles shine that way my friends | A |
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| He cuts the glowing yellow buildings in two breaks the walls into | E |
| motley halves | A |
| pensive he looks at the honey seeping from those huge honeycombs | A |
| throbs of pianos children's cries the thud of a head banging against | F |
| the floor | G |
| This is the only landscape able to make him feel | H |
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| He wonders at his brother's skull shaped like an egg | I |
| every day he shoves back his black hair from his brow | J |
| then one day he plants a big load of dynamite | K |
| and is surprised that afterward everything spouts up in the explosion | L |
| Agape he observes the clouds and what is hanging in them | M |
| globes penal codes dead cats floating on their backs locomotives | A |
| They turn in the skeins of white clouds like trash in a puddle | N |
| While below on the earth a banner the color of a romantic rose | A |
| flutters | A |
| and a long row of military trains crawls on the weed covered tracks | A |
Czeslaw Milosz
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