At This Moment Of Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDEDBFGBF HCIJKLMC| Some who are uncertain compel me They fear | A |
| The Ace of Spades They fear | A |
| Loves offered suddenly turning from the mantelpiece | B |
| Sweet with decision And they distrust | C |
| The fireworks by the lakeside first the spuft | C |
| Then the colored lights rising | D |
| Tentative hesitant doubtful they consume | E |
| Greedily Caesar at the prow returning | D |
| Locked in the stone of his act and office | B |
| While the brass band brightly bursts over the water | F |
| They stand in the crowd lining the shore | G |
| Aware of the water beneath Him They know it Their eyes | B |
| Are haunted by water | F |
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| Disturb me compel me It is not true | H |
| That no man is happy but that is not | C |
| The sense which guides you If we are | I |
| Unfinished we are unless hope is a bad dream | J |
| You are exact You tug my sleeve | K |
| Before I speak with a shadow's friendship | L |
| And I remember that we who move | M |
| Are moved by clouds that darken midnight | C |
Delmore Schwartz
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