The Mistake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFDGHIDJKLMNOPQ RNS| There is always the harrowing by mortality | A |
| the strafing by age he thinks Always defeats | B |
| Sorrows come like epidemics But we are alive | C |
| in the difficult way adults want to be alive | C |
| It is worth having the heart broken | D |
| a blessing to hurt for eighteen years | E |
| because a woman is dead He thinks of long | F |
| before that the summer he was with Gianna | D |
| and her sister in Apulia Having outwitted | G |
| the General their father and driven south | H |
| to the estate of the Contessa Like an opera | I |
| The fiefdom stretching away to the horizon | D |
| Houses of the peasants burrowed into the walls | J |
| of the compound A butler with white gloves | K |
| serving chicken in aspic The pretty maid | L |
| in her uniform bringing his breakfast each | M |
| morning on a silver tray toast both light | N |
| and dark hot chocolate and tea both A world | O |
| like Tosca A feudal world crushed under | P |
| the weight of passion without feeling | Q |
| Gianna s virgin body helplessly in love | R |
| The young man wild with romance and appetite | N |
| Wondering whether he would ruin her by mistake | S |
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