The Vacuum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJ HHKLH| The house is so quiet now | A |
| The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet | B |
| Its bag limp as a stopped lung its mouth | C |
| Grinning into the floor maybe at my | D |
| Slovenly life my dog dead youth | E |
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| I ve lived this way long enough | F |
| But when my old woman died her soul | G |
| Went into that vacuum cleaner and I can t bear | H |
| To see the bag swell like a belly eating the dust | I |
| And the woolen mice and begin to howl | J |
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| Because there is old filth everywhere | H |
| She used to crawl in the corner and under the stair | H |
| I know now how life is cheap as dirt | K |
| And still the hungry angry heart | L |
| Hangs on and howls biting at air | H |
Howard Nemerov
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