Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DEAF BGHI JKLC MNCA OPEM QERA| This poem is not addressed to you | A |
| You may come into it briefly | B |
| But no one will find you here no one | C |
| You will have changed before the poem will | D |
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| Even while you sit there unmovable | D |
| You have begun to vanish And it does not matter | E |
| The poem will go on without you | A |
| It has the spurious glamor of certain voids | F |
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| It is not sad really only empty | B |
| Once perhaps it was sad no one knows why | G |
| It prefers to remember nothing | H |
| Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago | I |
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| Your type of beauty has no place here | J |
| Night is the sky over this poem | K |
| It is too black for stars | L |
| And do not look for any illumination | C |
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| You neither can nor should understand what it means | M |
| Listen it comes with out guitar | N |
| Neither in rags nor any purple fashion | C |
| And there is nothing in it to comfort you | A |
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| Close your eyes yawn It will be over soon | O |
| You will forge the poem but not before | P |
| It has forgotten you And it does not matter | E |
| It has been most beautiful in its erasures | M |
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| O bleached mirrors Oceans of the drowned | Q |
| Nor is one silence equal to another | E |
| And it does not matter what you think | R |
| This poem is not addressed to you | A |
Donald Justice
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