The Evening Of The Mind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKE LMNGOEPQFEBR| Now comes the evening of the mind | A |
| Here are the fireflies twitching in the blood | B |
| Here is the shadow moving down the page | C |
| Where you sit reading by the garden wall | D |
| Now the dwarf peach trees nailed to their trellises | E |
| Shudder and droop Your know their voices now | F |
| Faintly the martyred peaches crying out | G |
| Your name the name nobody knows but you | H |
| It is the aura and the coming on | I |
| It is the thing descending circling here | J |
| And now it puts a claw out and you take it | K |
| Thankfully in your lap you take it so | E |
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| You said you would not go away again | L |
| You did not want to go away and yet | M |
| It is as if you stood out on the dock | N |
| Watching a little boat drift out | G |
| Beyond the sawgrass shallows the dead fish | O |
| And you were in it skimming past old snags | E |
| Beyond beyond under a brazen sky | P |
| As soundless as a gong before it's struck | Q |
| Suspended how and now they strike it now | F |
| The ether dream of five years old repeats repeats | E |
| And you must wake again to your own blood | B |
| And empty spaces in the throat | R |
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