Poem (remember Midsummer: The Fragrance Of Box) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIGJKLMNO APQRSTUVW FXLRTYDZA2B2FC2D2E2F 2G2LDH2D| Remember 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 |
Delmore Schwartz
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