Heliograph Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DE FG CH ID JD| Self Portrait Omens and Astrology A desert flat and undisturbed stupid and forlorn Sunless a caravan of failures Pons Asinorum and the Feast of the Ass and revolt against standardized American childhood | A |
| War and Violence | B |
| Catapults and Torches and the first stray thrusts of Sun into the Soul Bombardments and Bordels Heraldry and High Walls Too rigid to crumble but not too strong to fracture | C |
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| Post War Depression | D |
| Extensive swamps formed by alcohol stagnating in the brain Away from the gregariousness of the elephant towards the singleness of the hawk | E |
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| Omens and Astrology | F |
| From Fog to Sun Leaves and Inflorescence Four columns of red marble The scorification method Love Madness Torchbearer and the complete entrance of Sun into Soul Sunfire | G |
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| Boa Constrictor | C |
| through the thick grass Red Skeletons Silver Scar by Silver Image and Cicatrix Reculer pour mieux avancer The beaten forces were at last withdrawn safely into the Island | H |
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| The Primitive Method | I |
| of strengthening the soul by dropping red hot sunstones into it Rimbaud and Van Gogh Counter Attack Turbulence Chariot of the Sun | D |
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| The Mad Queen | J |
| The violent state of fusion Her Sun tattoed on my back The bold progressive march to the Sun Multiplication of Madness anarchism I lay siege to the Sun | D |
Harry Crosby
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