Bullets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCE FGFGHIHI JKJLMAMMA NONOJPJP QRQRSTSST DEDEUVUV VWVWXYXXY ZA2ZA2B2C2B2C2 D2ED2EE2EE2E2E FGFGDEDE| As bullets come to us they're thin | A |
| They're angular or smooth and fat | B |
| Some spiral are and gimlet in | A |
| And some are sharp and others flat | B |
| The slim one pink you clean and neat | C |
| The flat ones bat a solid blow | D |
| Much as a camel throws his feet | C |
| And leave you beastly incomplete | C |
| If lucky you don't know it through | E |
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| The flitting bullets flow and flock | F |
| They twitter as they pass | G |
| They're picking at the solid rock | F |
| They're rooting in the grass | G |
| A tiny ballet swiftly throws | H |
| Its gossamer of rust | I |
| Brown fairies on their little toes | H |
| A dancing in the dust | I |
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| You cower down when first they come | J |
| With snaky whispers at your ear | K |
| And when like swarming bees they hum | J |
| You know the tinkling chill of fear | L |
| A whining thing will pluck your heel | M |
| A whirring insect sting your shin | A |
| You shrink to half your size and feel | M |
| The ripples o'er your body seal | M |
| 'Tis terror walking in your skin | A |
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| The bullets pelt like winter hail | N |
| The whistle and they sigh | O |
| They shrill like cordage in a gale | N |
| Like mewing kittens cry | O |
| They hiss and spit they purring come | J |
| Or silent all a span | P |
| They rap as on a slackened drum | J |
| The dab that kills a man | P |
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| Rage takes you next All hot your face | Q |
| The bitter void and curses leap | R |
| From pincered teeth The wide still space | Q |
| Whence all these leaden devil's sweep | R |
| Is Tophet Fiends by day and night | S |
| Are groping for your heart to sate | T |
| In blood their diabolic spite | S |
| You shoot in idiot delight | S |
| Each winging slug a hymn of hate | T |
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| The futile bullets scratch and go | D |
| They chortle and the coo | E |
| I laugh my scorn for now I know | D |
| The thing they cannot do | E |
| They flit like midges in the sun | U |
| But howso thick they be | V |
| What matter since there is not one | U |
| That God has marked for me | V |
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| An Eastern old philosophy | V |
| Come home at length and passion stills | W |
| The thing will be that is to be | V |
| And all must come as Heaven wills | W |
| Where in the swelter and the flame | X |
| The new hot shining bullets drip | Y |
| One in the many has an aim | X |
| Inwove a visage and a name | X |
| No man may give his fate the slip | Y |
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| The bullets thrill along the breeze | Z |
| They drum upon the bags | A2 |
| They tweak your ear your hair they tease | Z |
| And peck your sleeve to rags | A2 |
| Their voices may no more annoy | B2 |
| I chortle at the call | C2 |
| The bullet that is mine my boy | B2 |
| I shall not hear at all | C2 |
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| The war's a flutter very like | D2 |
| The tickets that we took from Tatt | E |
| Quite possibly I'll make a strike | D2 |
| The odds are all opposed to that | E |
| Behind the dawn the Furies sway | E2 |
| The mighty globe from which to get | E |
| Those bullets which throughout the day | E2 |
| Will winners be to break or slay | E2 |
| I have not struck a starter yet | E |
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| The busy bullets rise and flock | F |
| They whistle as they pass | G |
| They're chipping at the solid rock | F |
| They're skipping in the grass | G |
| Out there the tiny dancers throw | D |
| Their sober skirts of rust | E |
| Brown flitting figures tipping toe | D |
| Along the golden dust | E |
Edward George Dyson
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