My Blindness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A B C D E F| Once I woke up in the dark and thought I was blind There was no light at all There's always some light | A |
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| Blind I was calm in that perfect dark Friends would come and I'd tell them what they had to do It would be all right | A |
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| I'd go back home but dignified and I'd know my way perfectly in the house even on the streets I'd only been gone a few years | B |
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| I'd have them read me strange books and they'd love my strangeness thinking this is what it was we knew there was something They'd loved it a little already | C |
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| There at home in my great dark I'd find a single purpose and begin | D |
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| But you know this the light came | E |
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| Don't laugh at me I live with so little blindness Such a long way I've come So little blindness | F |
Eric Torgersen
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