Poor Angels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEFG HIJK ELAM IEGN IOIP QIRS TU| At this hour the soul floats weightlessly | A |
| through the city streets speechless and invisible | A |
| astonished by the smoky blend of grays and golds | B |
| seeping out of the air the dark half tones | C |
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| of dusk suddenly filling the urban sky | D |
| while the body sits listlessly by the window | E |
| sullen and heavy too exhausted to move | F |
| too weary to stand up or to lie down | G |
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| At this hour the soul is like a yellow wing | H |
| slipping through the treetops a little ecstatic | I |
| cloud hovering over the sidewalks calling out | J |
| to the approaching night Amaze me amaze me | K |
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| while the body sits glumly by the window | E |
| listening to the clear summons of the dead | L |
| transparent as glass clairvoyant as crystal | A |
| Some nights it is almost ready to join them | M |
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| Oh this is a strange unlikely tethering | I |
| a furious grafting of the quick and the slow | E |
| when the soul flies up the body sinks down | G |
| and all night locked in the same cramped room | N |
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| they go on quarreling stubbornly threatening | I |
| to leave each other wordlessly filling the air | O |
| with the sound of a low internal burning | I |
| How long can this bewildering marriage last | P |
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| At midnight the soul dreams of a small fire | Q |
| of stars flaming on the other side of the sky | I |
| but the body stares into an empty night sheen | R |
| a hollow eyed darkness Poor luckless angels | S |
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| feverish old loves don t separate yet | T |
| Let what rises live with what descends | U |
Edward Hirsch
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