Poem (remember Midsummer: The Fragrance Of Box) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIGJKLMNO APQRSTUVW FXLRTYDZA2B2FC2D2E2F 2G2LDH2DRemember midsummer the fragrance of box of white | A |
roses | B |
And of phlox And upon a honeysuckle branch | C |
Three snails hanging with infinite delicacy | D |
Clinging like tendril flake and thread as self tormented | E |
And self delighted as any ballerina | F |
just as in the orchard | G |
Near the apple trees in the over grown grasses | H |
Drunken wasps clung to over ripe pears | I |
Which had fallen swollen and disfigured | G |
For now it is wholly autumn in the late | J |
Afternoon as I walked toward the ridge where the hills | K |
begin | L |
There is a whir a thrashing in the bush and a startled | M |
pheasant flying out and up | N |
Suddenly astonished me breaking the waking dream | O |
- | |
Last night | A |
Snatches of sleep streaked by dreams and half dreams | P |
So that aloft in the dim sky for almost an hour | Q |
A sausage balloon chalk white and lifeless looking | R |
floated motionless | S |
Until at midnight I went to New Bedlam and saw what I | T |
feared | U |
the most I heard nothing but it | V |
had all happened several times elsewhere | W |
- | |
Now in the cold glittering morning shining at the | F |
window | X |
The pears hang yellowed and over ripe sodden brown in | L |
erratic places all bunched and dangling | R |
Like a small choir of bagpipes silent and waiting And I | T |
rise now | Y |
Go to the window and gaze at the fallen or falling country | D |
And see the fields are pencilled light brown | Z |
or are the dark brownness of the last autumn | A2 |
So much has shrunken to straight brown lines thin as | B2 |
the | F |
bare thin trees | C2 |
Save where the cornstalks white bones of the lost forever dead | D2 |
Shrivelled and fallen but shrill voiced when the wind | E2 |
whistles | F2 |
Are scattered like the long abandoned hopes and ambitions | G2 |
Of an adolescence which for a very long time has been | L |
merely | D |
A recurrent target and taunt of the inescapable mockery of | H2 |
memory | D |
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