Poem (old Man In The Crystal Morning After Snow) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCADEED FGFAAG| Old man in the crystal morning after snow | A |
| Your throat swathed in a muffler your bent | B |
| Figure building the snow man which is meant | B |
| For the grandchild's target | C |
| do you know | A |
| This fat cartoon his eyes pocked in with coal | D |
| Nears you each time your breath smokes the air | E |
| Lewdly grinning out of a private nightmare | E |
| He is the white cold shadow of your soul | D |
| - | |
| You build his comic head you place his comic hat | F |
| Old age is not so serious and I | G |
| By the window sad and watchful as a cat | F |
| Build to this poem of old age and of snow | A |
| And weep you are my snow man and I know | A |
| I near you you near him all of us must die | G |
Delmore Schwartz
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