While Someone Telephones Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFBGHIJECE| Wasted wasted minutes that couldn't be worse | A |
| minutes of a barbaric condescension | B |
| Stare out the bathroom window at the fir trees | C |
| at their dark needles accretions to no purpose | D |
| woodenly crystallized and where two fireflies | E |
| are only lost | F |
| Hear nothing but a train that goes by must go by like tension | B |
| nothing And wait | G |
| maybe even now these minutes' host | H |
| emerges some relaxed uncondescending stranger | I |
| the heart's release | J |
| And while the fireflies | E |
| are failing to illuminate these nightmare trees | C |
| might they not be his green gay eyes | E |
Elizabeth Bishop
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