Suicide Of A Moderate Dictator Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFGHI JJKKFLMNO PQRSTUVW| This is a day when truths will out perhaps | A |
| leak from the dangling telephone earphones | B |
| sapping the festooned switchboards' strength | C |
| fall from the windows blow from off the sills | D |
| the vague slight unremarkable contents | E |
| of emptying ash trays rub off on our fingers | F |
| like ink from the un proof read newspapers | F |
| crocking the way the unfocused photographs | G |
| of crooked faces do that soil our coats | H |
| our tropical weight coats like slapped at moths | I |
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| Today's a day when those who work | J |
| are idling Those who played must work | J |
| and hurry too to get it done | K |
| with little dignity or none | K |
| The newspapers are sold the kiosk shutters | F |
| crash down But anyway in the night | L |
| the headlines wrote themselves see on the streets | M |
| and sidewalks everywhere a sediment's splashed | N |
| even to the first floors of apartment houses | O |
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| This is a day that's beautiful as well | P |
| and warm and clear At seven o'clock I saw | Q |
| the dogs being walked along the famous beach | R |
| as usual in a shiny gray green dawn | S |
| leaving their paw prints draining in the wet | T |
| The line of breakers was steady and the pinkish | U |
| segmented rainbow steadily hung above it | V |
| At eight two little boys were flying kites | W |
Elizabeth Bishop
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