The Greatest Thing In North America Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBACD CEFAG HCCIJCCBCC| This is the greatest thing in North America | A |
| Europe is the greatest thing in North America | A |
| High in the sky dark in the heart and always there | B |
| Among the natural powers of sunlight and of air | B |
| Changing second by second shifting and changing the | A |
| light | C |
| Bring fresh rain to the stone of the library steps | D |
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| Under the famous names upon the pediment | C |
| Thales Aristotle | E |
| Cicero Augustine Scotus Galileo | F |
| Joseph Odysseus Hamlet Columbus and Spinoza | A |
| Anna Karenina Alyosha Karamazov Sherlock Holmes | G |
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| And the last three also live upon the silver screen | H |
| Three blocks away in moonlight's artificial day | C |
| A double bill in the darkened palace whirled | C |
| And the veritable glittering light of the turning world's | I |
| Burning mind and blazing imagination showing day by | J |
| day | C |
| And week after week the desires of the heart and mind | C |
| Of all the living souls yearning everywhere | B |
| From Canada to Panama from Brooklyn to Paraguay | C |
| From Cuba to Vancouver every afternoon and every night | C |
Delmore Schwartz
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