Lion & Honeycomb Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI JKLMN OPQRSTUVTWXYZYA2B2OI C2D2| He didn't want to do it with skill | A |
| He'd had enough of skill If he never saw | B |
| Another villanelle it would be too soon | C |
| And the same went for sonnets If it had been | D |
| Hard work learning to rime it would be much | E |
| Harder learning not to The time came | F |
| He had to ask himself what did he want | G |
| What did he want when he began | H |
| That idiot fiddling with the sounds of things | I |
| - | |
| He asked himself poor moron because he had | J |
| Nobody else to ask The others went right on | K |
| Talking about form talking about myth | L |
| And the so help us need for a modern idiom | M |
| The verseballs among them kept counting syllables | N |
| - | |
| So there he was this forty year old teen ager | O |
| Dreaming preposterous mergers and divisions | P |
| Of vowels like water consonants like rock | Q |
| While everybody kept discussing values | R |
| And the need for values for words that would | S |
| Enter the silence and be there as a light | T |
| So much coffee and so many cigarettes | U |
| Gone down the drain gone up in smoke | V |
| Just for the sake of getting something right | T |
| Once in a while something that could stand | W |
| On its own flat feet to keep out windy time | X |
| And the worm something that might simply be | Y |
| Not as the monument in the smoky rain | Z |
| Grimly endures but that would be | Y |
| Only a moment's inviolable presence | A2 |
| The moment before disaster before the storm | B2 |
| In its peculiar silence an integer | O |
| Fixed in the middle of the fall of things | I |
| Perfected and casual as to a child's eye | C2 |
| Soap bubbles are and skipping stones | D2 |
Howard Nemerov
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