The Hours Rise Up Putting Off Stars And It Is Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC ADEFG BHI JKLD M FNOPIF QR STUKD GVW C| the hours rise up putting off stars and it is | A |
| dawn | B |
| into the street of the sky light walks scattering poems | C |
| - | |
| on earth a candle is | A |
| extinguished the city | D |
| wakes | E |
| with a song upon her | F |
| mouth having death in her eyes | G |
| - | |
| and it is dawn | B |
| the world | H |
| goes forth to murder dreams | I |
| - | |
| i see in the street where strong | J |
| men are digging bread | K |
| and i see the brutal faces of | L |
| people contented hideous hopeless cruel happy | D |
| - | |
| and it is day | M |
| - | |
| in the mirror | F |
| i see a frail | N |
| man | O |
| dreaming | P |
| dreams | I |
| dreams in the mirror | F |
| - | |
| and it | Q |
| is dusk on earth | R |
| - | |
| a candle is lighted | S |
| and it is dark | T |
| the people are in their houses | U |
| the frail man is in his bed | K |
| the city | D |
| - | |
| sleeps with death upon her mouth having a song in her eyes | G |
| the hours descend | V |
| putting on stars | W |
| - | |
| in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems | C |
E. E. Cummings
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