Sonnet: O City, City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD CECEEC| To live between terms to live where death | A |
| has his loud picture in the subway ride | B |
| Being amid six million souls their breath | A |
| An empty song suppressed on every side | B |
| Where the sliding auto's catastrophe | C |
| Is a gust past the curb where numb and high | D |
| The office building rises to its tyranny | C |
| Is our anguished diminution until we die | D |
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| Whence if ever shall come the actuality | C |
| Of a voice speaking the mind's knowing | E |
| The sunlight bright on the green windowshade | C |
| And the self articulate affectionate and flowing | E |
| Ease warmth light the utter showing | E |
| When in the white bed all things are made | C |
Delmore Schwartz
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