The Patient Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DEFG HIJK BALM LANO LPQL| The patient looks outs into the garden burning | A |
| With Christmas stars of vermillion fire | B |
| They flower he feels nicely on that bush together | B |
| But he is no longer akin to himself | C |
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| Timidly he plumbs his inhalations night and day | D |
| Sinking into that inner circle of being him | E |
| Has he ever breathed without doubt | F |
| How strange that now he thinks each breath | G |
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| People are so dear and ill timed | H |
| They offer their care which lingers | I |
| The patient is ashamed because of that stress | J |
| Which accentuates all talk of hope | K |
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| On his blanket lies the morning paper | B |
| With a giant headline screaming | A |
| From the corner of his eye the patient reads | L |
| What already escapes his memory | M |
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| What bombs hecatombs slaughtered downfalls | L |
| Of people and cities early and evening | A |
| Is this the world then The ego is a throng | N |
| Of identity burst long ago | O |
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| The I is like one of those swarms of bees | L |
| Pendent ready to fly relocate | P |
| It is filled with only one desire For warmth | Q |
| And unmindful as forever is | L |
Franz Werfel
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