O Love, Sweet Animal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFDDBFGGBHHHHH| O Love dark animal | A |
| With your strangeness go | B |
| Like any freak or clown | C |
| Appease tee child in her | D |
| Because she is alone | E |
| Many years ago | B |
| Terrified by a look | F |
| Which was not meant for her | D |
| Brush your heavy fur | D |
| Against her long and slow | B |
| Stare at her like a book | F |
| Her interests being such | G |
| No one can look too much | G |
| Tell her how you know | B |
| Nothing can be taken | H |
| Which has not been given | H |
| For you time is forgiven | H |
| Informed by hell and heaven | H |
| You are not mistaken | H |
Delmore Schwartz
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