Socrates Ghost Must Haunt Me Now Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDCDDEFGGFHIIJJ| Socrates ghost must haunt me now | A |
| Notorious death has let him go | B |
| He comes to me with a clumsy bow | A |
| Saying in his disused voice | C |
| That I do not know I do not know | B |
| The mechanical whims of appetite | D |
| Are all that I have of conscious choice | C |
| The butterfly caged in eclectic light | D |
| Is my only day in the world's great night | D |
| Love is not love it is a child | E |
| Sucking his thumb and biting his lip | F |
| But grasp it all there may be more | G |
| From the topless sky to the bottomless floor | G |
| With the heavy head and the fingertip | F |
| All is not blind obscene and poor | H |
| Socrates stands by me stockstill | I |
| Teaching hope to my flickering will | I |
| Pointing to the sky's inexorable blue | J |
| Old Noumenon come true come true | J |
Delmore Schwartz
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