Phoenix Lyrics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFD A GHIHEHDJID A KLM| I | 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 |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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