Fugue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF DDGHIF FDJKLM| You see them vanish in their speeding cars | A |
| The many people hastening through the world | B |
| And wonder what they would have done before | C |
| This time of time speed distance random streams | D |
| Of molecules hastened by what rising heat | E |
| Was there never a world where people just sat still | F |
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| Yet they might be all of them contemplatives | D |
| Of a timeless now drivers and passengers | D |
| In the moving cars all facing to the front | G |
| Which is the future which is destiny | H |
| Which is desire and desire's end | I |
| What are they doing but just sitting still | F |
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| And still at speed they fly away as still | F |
| As the road paid out beneath them as it flows | D |
| Moment by moment into the mirrored past | J |
| They spread in their wake the parading fields of food | K |
| The windowless works where who is making what | L |
| The grey towns where the wishes and the fears are done | M |
Howard Nemerov
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