Nearer:breath Of My Breath:take Not They Tingling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACADED F E F| nearer breath of my breath take not they tingling | A |
| limbs from me make my pain their crazy meal | B |
| letting they tigers of smooth sweetness steal | B |
| slowly in dumb blossoms of new mingling | A |
| deeper blood of my blood with upwardcringing | A |
| swiftness plunge these leopards of white ream | C |
| this pith of darkness carve an evilfringing | A |
| flower of madness on gritted lips | D |
| and on sprawled eyes squirming with light insane | E |
| chisel the killing flame that dizzily grips | D |
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| Querying greys between mouthed houses curl | F |
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| thirstily Dead stars stink dawn Inane | E |
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| the poetic carcass of a girl | F |
E. E. Cummings
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