Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBABCDAEFEF FGHHGEIFAF GBJHBAKDL KBABHHAFF| Calmly we walk through this April's day | A |
| Metropolitan poetry here and there | B |
| In the park sit pauper and rentier | B |
| The screaming children the motor car | B |
| Fugitive about us running away | A |
| Between the worker and the millionaire | B |
| Number provides all distances | C |
| It is Nineteen Thirty Seven now | D |
| Many great dears are taken away | A |
| What will become of you and me | E |
| This is the school in which we learn | F |
| Besides the photo and the memory | E |
| that time is the fire in which we burn | F |
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| This is the school in which we learn | F |
| What is the self amid this blaze | G |
| What am I now that I was then | H |
| Which I shall suffer and act again | H |
| The theodicy I wrote in my high school days | G |
| Restored all life from infancy | E |
| The children shouting are bright as they run | I |
| This is the school in which they learn | F |
| Ravished entirely in their passing play | A |
| that time is the fire in which they burn | F |
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| Avid its rush that reeling blaze | G |
| Where is my father and Eleanor | B |
| Not where are they now dead seven years | J |
| But what they were then | H |
| No more No more | B |
| From Nineteen Fourteen to the present day | A |
| Bert Spira and Rhoda consume consume | K |
| Not where they are now where are they now | D |
| But what they were then both beautiful | L |
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| Each minute bursts in the burning room | K |
| The great globe reels in the solar fire | B |
| Spinning the trivial and unique away | A |
| How all things flash How all things flare | B |
| What am I now that I was then | H |
| May memory restore again and again | H |
| The smallest color of the smallest day | A |
| Time is the school in which we learn | F |
| Time is the fire in which we burn | F |
Delmore Schwartz
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