Phoenix Lyrics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFD A GHIHEHDJID A KLMI | A |
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If nature is life nature is death | B |
It is winter as it is spring | C |
Confusion is variety variety | D |
And confusion in everything | C |
Make experience the true conclusion | E |
Of all desire and opulence | F |
All satisfaction and poverty | D |
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II | A |
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When a hundred years had passed nature seemed to man | G |
a clock | H |
Another century sank away and nature seemed a jungle | I |
in a rock | H |
And now that nature has become a ticking and hidden | E |
bomb how we must mock | H |
Newton Democritus the Deity | D |
The heart's ingenuity and the mind's infinite | J |
uncontrollable | I |
insatiable curiosity | D |
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III | A |
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Purple black cloud at sunset it is late August | K |
and the light begins to look cold and as we look | L |
listen and look we hear the first drums of autumn | M |
Delmore Schwartz
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