The Ballet Of The Fifth Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCDDEEFFGGHH| Where the sea gulls sleep or indeed where they fly | A |
| Is a place of different traffic Although I | A |
| Consider the fishing bay where I see them dip and curve | B |
| And purely glide a place that weakens the nerve | B |
| Of will and closes my eyes as they should not be | C |
| They should burn like the street light all night quietly | C |
| So that whatever is present will be known to me | C |
| Nevertheless the gulls and the imagination | D |
| Of where they sleep which comes to creation | D |
| In strict shape and color from their dallying | E |
| Their wings slowly and suddenly rallying | E |
| Over up down the arabesque of descent | F |
| Is an old act enacted my fabulous intent | F |
| When I skated afraid of policemen five years old | G |
| In the winter sunset sorrowful and cold | G |
| Hardly attained to thought but old enough to know | H |
| Such grace so self contained was the best escape to know | H |
Delmore Schwartz
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