The Widower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDEFDGHFI JKAL| She left him in death's egg | A |
| the bone sack the gunny sack | B |
| the bag of down feathers all black | B |
| Somehow he couldn't get back | B |
| - | |
| It was night | C |
| a night of shark faced jets | D |
| winking brighter than blue stars | E |
| a night of poisoned cities | F |
| mushrooming beneath the eyes of jets | D |
| a night of missile silos | G |
| sulking in the desert | H |
| a night of babies howling in the alleys | F |
| a night of cats | I |
| - | |
| She left a death so huge | J |
| his life got lost in it | K |
| She left a bloodstained egg | A |
| he had to hatch | L |
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