Villanelle At Sundown Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DBA CBC CBC DEC CECC| Turn your head Look The light is turning yellow | A |
| The river seems enriched thereby not to say deepened | B |
| Why this is I'll never be able to tell you | C |
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| Or are Americans half in love with failure | D |
| One used to say so reading Fitzgerald as it happened | B |
| That Viking Portable all water spotted and yellow | A |
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| remember Or does mere distance lend a value | C |
| to things false it may be but the view is hardly cheapened | B |
| Why this is I'll never be able to tell you | C |
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| The smoke those tiny cars the whole urban millieu | C |
| One can like anything diminishment has sharpened | B |
| Our painter friend Lang might show the whole thing yellow | C |
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| and not be much off It's nuance that counts not color | D |
| As in some late James novel saved up for the long weekend | E |
| and vivid with all the Master simply won't tell you | C |
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| How frail our generation has got how sallow | C |
| and pinched with just surviving We all go off the deep end | E |
| finally gold beaten thinly out to yellow | C |
| And why this is I'll never be able to tell you | C |
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