Socrates Ghost Must Haunt Me Now Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDCDDEFGGFHIIJJSocrates 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 |
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