The Beautiful American Word, Sure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DEFG GHG HGH| The beautiful American word Sure | A |
| As I have come into a room and touch | B |
| The lamp's button and the light blooms with such | B |
| Certainty where the darkness loomed before | C |
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| As I care for what I do not know and care | D |
| Knowing for little she might not have been | E |
| And for how little she would be unseen | F |
| The intercourse of lives miraculous and dear | G |
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| Where the light is and each thing clear | G |
| separate from all others standing in its place | H |
| I drink the time and touch whatever's near | G |
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| And hope for day when the whole world has that face | H |
| For what assures her present every year | G |
| In dark accidents the mind's sufficient grace | H |
Delmore Schwartz
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