The Poet Orders His Tomb Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD BBBB ECEE FFFF GHHI JKJJ| I summon up Panofskv from his bed | A |
| Among the famous dead | A |
| To build a tomb which since I am not read | A |
| Suffers the stone s mortality instead | A |
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| Which by the common iconographies | B |
| Of simple visual ease | B |
| Usurps the place of the complexities | B |
| Of sound survivors once preferred to noise | B |
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| Monkeys fixed on one bough an almost holy | C |
| Nightmarish sloth a tree | C |
| Of parrots in a pride of family | C |
| Immortal skunks unaromatically | C |
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| Some deaf bats in a cave a porcupine | D |
| Quill less a superfine | D |
| Flightless eagle and after them a line | D |
| Of geese unnavigating by design | D |
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| Dogs in the frozen haloes of their barks | B |
| A hundred porous arks | B |
| Aground and lost where elephants like quarks | B |
| Ape mother mules or imitation sharks | B |
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| And each of them half venerated by | E |
| A mob impartially | C |
| Scaled finned or feathered all before a dry | E |
| Unable mouth symmetrically awry | E |
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| But how shall I in my brief space describe | F |
| A tomb so vast a tribe | F |
| So desperately existent for a scribe | F |
| Knowingly of the fashions diatribe | F |
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| I who have sought time s memory afoot | G |
| Grateful for every root | H |
| Of trees that fill the garden with their fruit | H |
| Their fragrance and their shade Even as I do it | I |
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| I see myself unnoticed on the stair | J |
| That underneath a clear | K |
| Welcome of bells had promised me a fair | J |
| Attentive hearing s joy sometime somewhere | J |
Edgar Bowers
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