Dawn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL EMND OPQR| Dawn in New York has | A |
| four columns of mire | B |
| and a hurricane of black pigeons | C |
| splashing in the putrid waters | D |
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| Dawn in New York groans | E |
| on enormous fire escapes | F |
| searching between the angles | G |
| for spikenards of drafted anguish | H |
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| Dawn arrives and no one receives it in his mouth | I |
| because morning and hope are impossible there | J |
| sometimes the furious swarming coins | K |
| penetrate like drills and devour abandoned children | L |
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| Those who go out early know in their bones | E |
| there will be no paradise or loves that bloom and die | M |
| they know they will be mired in numbers and laws | N |
| in mindless games in fruitless labors | D |
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| The light is buried under chains and noises | O |
| in the impudent challenge of rootless science | P |
| And crowds stagger sleeplessly through the boroughs | Q |
| as if they had just escaped a shipwreck of blood | R |
Federico Garca-a Lorca
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