Extraits Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AABACDAEFG F DHF F FFFA F AGI JFJKAFLMA A JFNC OD| The Man Closing Up ' from Night Light' | A |
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| would make his bed | A |
| If he could sleep on it | A |
| He would make his bed with white sheets | B |
| And disappear into the white | A |
| Like a man diving | C |
| If he could be certain | D |
| That the light | A |
| Would not keep him awake | E |
| The light that reaches | F |
| To the bottom | G |
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| dour vision of life's journey from 'Sestina on Six Words by Weldon Kees' | F |
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| There is no way to ease the burden | D |
| The voyage leads on from harm to harm | H |
| A land of others and of silence | F |
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| 'The Miami of Other Days' | F |
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| The winter streets an orchestra of horns | F |
| And gods slept under tabernacle tents | F |
| That sprang up overnight on circus grounds | F |
| Like giant toadstools yearning for respectability | A |
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| In a portrait of himself at age seven he writes | F |
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| sometimes he would squat among the foul weeds of the vacant lot | A |
| Waiting for dusk and someone dear to come | G |
| And whip him down the street but gently home | I |
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| 'Poem to Be Read at A M ' | - |
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| Excepting the diner | J |
| On the outskirts | F |
| The town of Ladora | J |
| At A M | K |
| Was dark but | A |
| For my headlights | F |
| And up in | L |
| One second story room | M |
| A single light | A |
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| A more recent poem on the Great Depression shows his cynical side | A |
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| Agriculture embraced Industry | J |
| Mammothly on public walls | F |
| Meanwhile we camped out underneath | N |
| Great smiles on billboards fading | C |
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| How shall I speak of Doom and ours in special | O |
| But as of something altogether common | D |
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