The End Of Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DE FG HIC JK LM MG| There are always fields filled | A |
| with flowers or something sweeping like wind | B |
| tickling the hairs of your arm that sinking feeling | C |
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| of death stalking you There are birds there are always | D |
| birds swooping from rooftops | E |
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| their sinewy wings like flaps of newspaper | F |
| caught in an explanation There are absolutely | G |
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| no flowers and no moon to carry off | H |
| a woman from her laundry to some ancient sea The black locust | I |
| a swing roped to it the worn seat swaying | C |
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| in gusts announces the rain Bedsheets pound | J |
| in the wind their floral patterns dissolving into night | K |
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| The sky and rain darken the streets | L |
| hush an apology something to soothe the pain | M |
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| and rain continues flowing through crevasse to drain | M |
| which lets it run again into the sea | G |
Elizabeth H. Nearing
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