Closings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJ KLMNOPBQR QDSDTUVWX YZBSEEA2B2C2 DD2E2F2ZDDG2D H2I2J2DDK2L2M2O N2DO2O2J2P2Q2DS R2QDO2S2SST2S ZO2HZT2U2O2F2O2| A | |
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| Always Be Closing Liam told us | B |
| abc of real estate used cars | C |
| and poetry Liam the dandy | D |
| loved Brooks Brothers shirts double breasted | E |
| suits bespoke shoes and linen jackets | F |
| On the day Liam and Tree married | G |
| in our backyard Liam and I wore | H |
| Chuck's burgundy boho prep high tops | I |
| that Liam bought on Fifth Avenue | J |
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| When the rain started we moved indoors | K |
| and Liam read a Quartet aloud | L |
| T S Eliot turned old and frail | M |
| at sixty pale preparing for death | N |
| Then poets of new generations | O |
| died Frank O'Hara first then Jim Wright | P |
| with throat cancer in a Bronx hospice | B |
| Sylvia Plath beside the oven | Q |
| Thom Gunn of an overdose Denise | R |
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| Levertov Bob Creeley Jane Kenyon | Q |
| In a New York bar Liam told me | D |
| eccentric affectionate stories | S |
| about a road trip in Tree's country | D |
| of Montana and the joy they felt | T |
| in the abundance of their marriage | U |
| At Bennington Tree said Fourteen years | V |
| after the wedding in your backyard | W |
| I love Liam with my entire heart | X |
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| Liam's face changed quickly as he spoke | Y |
| eyes and mouth erupting with gusto | Z |
| as he improvised his outrageous | B |
| cheerful inventive obscenities | S |
| When I first met him I expounded | E |
| at a young poet's do his bearded | E |
| face was handsome and expressionless | A2 |
| He would not defer to a poet | B2 |
| fifty years old After a few months | C2 |
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| he was revising my lines for me | D |
| making the metaphors I couldn't | D2 |
| Even now working at poems I | E2 |
| imagine for a moment Liam | F2 |
| disassembling them A year ago | Z |
| he watched the progress of age turn me | D |
| skeletal pale flesh hanging loosely | D |
| in folds from my arms and thin rib bones | G2 |
| like grates above a sagging belly | D |
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| His body would never resemble | H2 |
| my body Four or five times a week | I2 |
| we wrote letters back and forth talking | J2 |
| about class structure about how Tree | D |
| took charge over the Academy | D |
| of American Poets about | K2 |
| poems and new attacks on free speech | L2 |
| When I won a notorious prize | M2 |
| Liam sent me eighty one notions | O |
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| about projects I might undertake | N2 |
| Number fifty six instructed me | D |
| Urge poets to commit suicide | O2 |
| His whole life he spoke of suicide | O2 |
| lightly when he wasn't preserving | J2 |
| the First Amendment from Jesse Helms | P2 |
| or enduring two colon cancers | Q2 |
| or watching films or chatting with Tree | D |
| or undergoing heart surgeries | S |
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| If he walked their dog Keeper one block | R2 |
| he had to take nitroglycerin | Q |
| When Jane was dying Liam and Tree | D |
| drove up to say goodbye I wheelchaired | O2 |
| Jane to a pile of books by her chair | S2 |
| to find the color plate of Caillebotte's | S |
| shadowy kitchen garden at Yerres | S |
| for the jacket of Otherwise when | T2 |
| Tree would design it I think of Jane's | S |
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| horror if she were alive to know | Z |
| that on August fifteenth Liam pulled | O2 |
| the shotgun's trigger The night before | H |
| wearing a tux over a yellow | Z |
| silk shirt he danced with Tree once again | T2 |
| before bed and the morning's murder | U2 |
| He left Tree alone and desolate | O2 |
| but without anger Tree knew Liam | F2 |
| did what he planned and needed to do | O2 |
Donald Hall
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