Variations On A Text By Vallejo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJK LMNLCOLPQR STUBVCWUXK| Me morir en Paris con aguacero | A |
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| I will die in Miami in the sun | B |
| On a day when the sun is very bright | C |
| A day like the days I remember a day like other days | D |
| A day that nobody knows or remembers yet | E |
| And the sun will be bright then on the dark glasses of strangers | F |
| And in the eyes of a few friends from my childhood | G |
| And of the surviving cousins by the graveside | H |
| While the diggers standing apart in the still shade of the palms | I |
| Rest on their shovels and smoke | J |
| Speaking in Spanish softly out of respect | K |
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| I think it will be on a Sunday like today | L |
| Except that the sun will be out the rain will have stopped | M |
| And the wind that today made all the little shrubs kneel down | N |
| And I think it will be a Sunday because today | L |
| When I took out this paper and began to write | C |
| Never before had anything looked so blank | O |
| My life these words the paper the gray Sunday | L |
| And my dog quivering under a table because of the storm | P |
| Looked up at me not understanding | Q |
| And my son read on without speaking and my wife slept | R |
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| Donald Justice is dead One Sunday the sun came out | S |
| It shone on the bay it shone on the white buildings | T |
| The cars moved down the street slowly as always so many | U |
| Some with their headlights on in spite of the sun | B |
| And after awhile the diggers with their shovels | V |
| Walked back to the graveside through the sunlight | C |
| And one of them put his blade into the earth | W |
| To lift a few clods of dirt the black marl of Miami | U |
| And scattered the dirt and spat | X |
| Turning away abruptly out of respect | K |
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