The Poet Orders His Tomb Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD BBBB ECEE FFFF GHHI JKJJI 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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