The Greatest Thing In North America Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBACD CEFAG HCCIJCCBCCThis 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 |
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