Goodbye To Tolerance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSG TURV HOWGXVYZJYA2JB2VC2JJ D2E2F2| Genial poets pink faced | A |
| earnest wits | B |
| you have given the world | C |
| some choice morsels | D |
| gobbets of language presented | E |
| as one presents T bone steak | F |
| and Cherries Jubilee | G |
| Goodbye goodbye | H |
| I don t care | I |
| if I never taste your fine food again | J |
| neutral fellows seers of every side | K |
| Tolerance what crimes | L |
| are committed in your name | M |
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| And you good women bakers of nicest bread | N |
| blood donors Your crumbs | O |
| choke me I would not want | P |
| a drop of your blood in me it is pumped | Q |
| by weak hearts perfect pulses that never | R |
| falter irresponsive | S |
| to nightmare reality | G |
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| It is my brothers my sisters | T |
| whose blood spurts out and stops | U |
| forever | R |
| because you choose to believe it is not your business | V |
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| Goodbye goodbye | H |
| your poems | O |
| shut their little mouths | W |
| your loaves grow moldy | G |
| a gulf has split | X |
| the ground between us | V |
| and you won t wave you re looking | Y |
| another way | Z |
| We shan t meet again | J |
| unless you leap it leaving | Y |
| behind you the cherished | A2 |
| worms of your dispassion | J |
| your pallid ironies | B2 |
| your jovial murderous | V |
| wry humored balanced judgment | C2 |
| leap over un | J |
| balanced then | J |
| how our fanatic tears | D2 |
| would flow and mingle | E2 |
| for joy | F2 |
Denise Levertov
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