Je Suis Une Table Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFG HIJI KLML| It has happened suddenly | A |
| by surprise in an arbor | B |
| or while drinking good coffee | A |
| after speaking or before | C |
| - | |
| that I dumbly inhabit | D |
| a density in language | E |
| there is nothing to stop it | F |
| for nothing retains an edge | G |
| - | |
| Simple ignorance presents | H |
| later words for a function | I |
| but it is common pretense | J |
| of speech by a convention | I |
| - | |
| and there is nothing at all | K |
| but inner silence nothing | L |
| to relieve on principle | M |
| now this intense thickening | L |
Donald Hall
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