A Sunset Of The City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDD EFGF HII JKCK CLMM NOOPQNN R| Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love | A |
| My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls | B |
| Are gone from the house | C |
| My husband and lovers are pleasant or somewhat polite | D |
| And night is night | D |
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| It is a real chill out | E |
| The genuine thing | F |
| I am not deceived I do not think it is still summer | G |
| Because sun stays and birds continue to sing | F |
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| It is summer gone that I see it is summer gone | H |
| The sweet flowers indrying and dying down | I |
| The grasses forgetting their blaze and consenting to brown | I |
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| It is a real chill out The fall crisp comes | J |
| I am aware there is winter to heed | K |
| There is no warm house | C |
| That is fitted with my need | K |
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| I am cold in this cold house this house | C |
| Whose washed echoes are tremulous down lost halls | L |
| I am a woman and dusty standing among new affairs | M |
| I am a woman who hurries through her prayers | M |
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| Tin intimations of a quiet core to be my | N |
| Desert and my dear relief | O |
| Come there shall be such islanding from grief | O |
| And small communion with the master shore | P |
| Twang they And I incline this ear to tin | Q |
| Consult a dual dilemma Whether to dry | N |
| In humming pallor or to leap and die | N |
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| Somebody muffed it Somebody wanted to joke | R |
Gwendolyn Brooks
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