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 bedA
Among the famous deadA
To build a tomb which since I am not readA
Suffers the stone s mortality insteadA
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Which by the common iconographiesB
Of simple visual easeB
Usurps the place of the complexitiesB
Of sound survivors once preferred to noiseB
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Monkeys fixed on one bough an almost holyC
Nightmarish sloth a treeC
Of parrots in a pride of familyC
Immortal skunks unaromaticallyC
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Some deaf bats in a cave a porcupineD
Quill less a superfineD
Flightless eagle and after them a lineD
Of geese unnavigating by designD
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Dogs in the frozen haloes of their barksB
A hundred porous arksB
Aground and lost where elephants like quarksB
Ape mother mules or imitation sharksB
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And each of them half venerated byE
A mob impartiallyC
Scaled finned or feathered all before a dryE
Unable mouth symmetrically awryE
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But how shall I in my brief space describeF
A tomb so vast a tribeF
So desperately existent for a scribeF
Knowingly of the fashions diatribeF
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I who have sought time s memory afootG
Grateful for every rootH
Of trees that fill the garden with their fruitH
Their fragrance and their shade Even as I do itI
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I see myself unnoticed on the stairJ
That underneath a clearK
Welcome of bells had promised me a fairJ
Attentive hearing s joy sometime somewhereJ

Edgar Bowers



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