On An Occasion Of National Mourning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQQRSIt is admittedly difficult for a whole | A |
Nation to mourn and be seen to do so but | B |
It can be done the silvery platitudes | C |
Were waiting in their silos for just such | D |
An emergent occasion cards of sympathy | E |
From heads of state were long ago prepared | F |
For launching and are bounced around the world | G |
From satellites at near the speed of light | H |
The divine services are telecast | I |
From the home towns children are interviewed | J |
And say politely gravely how sorry they are | K |
And in a week or so the thing is done | L |
The sea gives up its bits and pieces and | M |
The investigating board pinpoints the cause | N |
By inspecting bits and pieces nothing of the sort | O |
Can ever happen again the prescribed course | P |
Of tragedy is run through omen to amen | Q |
As in a play the nation rises again | Q |
Reborn of grief and ready to seek the stars | R |
Remembering the shuttle forgetting the loom | S |
Howard Nemerov
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