Veterans' Cemetery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGHG IJIJ| The ceremonies of the day have ceased | A |
| Abandoned to the ragged crow's parade | B |
| The flags unravel in the caterpillar's feast | A |
| The wreaths collapse onto the stones they shade | B |
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| How quietly doves gather by the gate | C |
| Like souls who have no heaven and no hell | D |
| The patient grass reclaims its lost estate | C |
| Where one stone angel stands as sentinel | E |
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| The voices whispering in the burning leaves | F |
| Faint and inhuman what can they desire | G |
| When every season feeds upon the past | H |
| And summer's green ignites the autumn's fire | G |
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| The afternoon's a single thread of light | I |
| Sewn through the tatters of a leafless willow | J |
| As one by one the branches fade from sight | I |
| And time curls up like paper turning yellow | J |
Dana Gioia
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