Pantoum Of The Great Depression Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD BEDF EGFH GIHJ IHJA HKAL KMLN MONP OBPA A Q| Our lives avoided tragedy | A |
| Simply by going on and on | B |
| Without end and with little apparent meaning | C |
| Oh there were storms and small catastrophes | D |
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| Simply by going on and on | B |
| We managed No need for the heroic | E |
| Oh there were storms and small catastrophes | D |
| I don't remember all the particulars | F |
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| We managed No need for the heroic | E |
| There were the usual celebrations the usual sorrows | G |
| I don't remember all the particulars | F |
| Across the fence the neighbors were our chorus | H |
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| There were the usual celebrations the usual sorrows | G |
| Thank god no one said anything in verse | I |
| The neighbors were our only chorus | H |
| And if we suffered we kept quiet about it | J |
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| At no time did anyone say anything in verse | I |
| It was the ordinary pities and fears consumed us | H |
| And if we suffered we kept quiet about it | J |
| No audience would ever know our story | A |
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| It was the ordinary pities and fears consumed us | H |
| We gathered on porches the moon rose we were poor | K |
| What audience would ever know our story | A |
| Beyond our windows shone the actual world | L |
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| We gathered on porches the moon rose we were poor | K |
| And time went by drawn by slow horses | M |
| Somewhere beyond our windows shone the actual world | L |
| The Great Depression had entered our souls like fog | N |
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| And time went by drawn by slow horses | M |
| We did not ourselves know what the end was | O |
| The Great Depression had entered our souls like fog | N |
| We had our flaws perhaps a few private virtues | P |
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| But we did not ourselves know what the end was | O |
| People like us simply go on | B |
| We had our flaws perhaps a few private virtues | P |
| But it is by blind chance only that we escape tragedy | A |
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| And there is no plot in that it is devoid of poetry | A |
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| Anonymous submission | Q |
Donald Justice
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