Someone Is Harshly Coughing As Before Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACDED FAGHHA IJKJJA LMJANJASomeone is harshly coughing on the next floor | A |
Sudden excitement catching the flesh of his throat | B |
Who is the sick one | C |
Who will knock at the door | A |
Ask what is wrong and sweetly pay attention | C |
The shy withdrawal of the sensitive face | D |
Embarrassing both but double shame is tender | E |
We will mind our ignorant business keep our place | D |
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But it is God who has caught cold again | F |
Wandering helplessly in the world once more | A |
Now he is phthisic and he is poor Keats | G |
Pardon O Father unknowable Dear this word | H |
Only the cartoon is lucid only the curse is heard | H |
Longing for Eden afraid of the coming war | A |
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The past a giant shadow like the twilight | I |
The moving street on which the autos slide | J |
The buildings' heights like broken teeth | K |
Repeat necessity on every side | J |
The age requires death and is not denied | J |
He has come as a young man to be hanged once more | A |
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Another exile bare his complex care | L |
When smoke in silence curves | M |
from every fallen side | J |
Pity and Peace return padding the broken floor | A |
With heavy feet | N |
Their linen hands will hide | J |
In the stupid opiate the exhausted war | A |
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