Cirque D'hiver Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBB DEFGE HIBII HJKJJ BLMML| Across the floor flits the mechanical toy | A |
| fit for a king of several centuries back | B |
| A little circus horse with real white hair | C |
| His eyes are glossy black | B |
| He bears a little dancer on his back | B |
| - | |
| She stands upon her toes and turns and turns | D |
| A slanting spray of artificial roses | E |
| is stitched across her skirt and tinsel bodice | F |
| Above her head she poses | G |
| another spray of artificial roses | E |
| - | |
| His mane and tail are straight from Chirico | H |
| He has a formal melancholy soul | I |
| He feels her pink toes dangle toward his back | B |
| along the little pole | I |
| that pierces both her body and her soul | I |
| - | |
| and goes through his and reappears below | H |
| under his belly as a big tin key | J |
| He canters three steps then he makes a bow | K |
| canters again bows on one knee | J |
| canters then clicks and stops and looks at me | J |
| - | |
| The dancer by this time has turned her back | B |
| He is the more intelligent by far | L |
| Facing each other rather desperately mdash | M |
| his eye is like a star mdash | M |
| we stare and say Well we have come this far | L |
Elizabeth Bishop
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