Clear-seeing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDEFGHIBJKLMNOKPQR PSJTOUVWXHYZA2B2| Bavaria | A |
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| The clairvoyante a major general s wife | B |
| The secretaries sibyl read the letters | C |
| They brought her from their GI soldier lovers | C |
| Interpreting the script I went along | D |
| One afternoon with writing of my own | E |
| This writing is by one you cannot trust | F |
| She frowned and all the secretaries smiled | G |
| But when she took my palm she read the brown | H |
| Fingers for too much smoking and the lines | I |
| Of time and fate for a long and famous life | B |
| Soon you will take a trip by land and sea | J |
| Across the hall her husband half asleep | K |
| And propped high on his pillows when I bent | L |
| To shake his hand seeing my uniform | M |
| Called in a whisper as if he still dreamed | N |
| I told him not to go to Russia Then | O |
| Remembering the woman at my jeep | K |
| Among the smoking tanks and half tracks crying | P |
| My husband fell in Russia I thought I saw | Q |
| For him the summer uniforms in snow | R |
| Partisans savage reprisals day long strafing | P |
| Long lines of prisoners never to return | S |
| Comrades armless legless and blind But he | J |
| Clutching my sleeve to pull me closer whispered | T |
| It was the SS did it not my men | O |
| The week before the armistice they took | U |
| Three just conscripted boys who were afraid | V |
| And hanged them German children the sky green | W |
| Above the uniforms too big for them | X |
| As we saw when we found and cut them down | H |
| It was then that I despaired to live or die | Y |
| The secretaries waiting with their coats on | Z |
| She thanked me for my visit and Next week | A2 |
| Bring cigarettes and coffee please she said | B2 |
Edgar Bowers
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