Someone Is Harshly Coughing As Before Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACDED FAGHHA IJKJJA LMJANJA| Someone 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 |
Delmore Schwartz
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