Having Lost My Sons, I Confront The Wreckage Of The Moon: Christmas, 1960 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDE FGFH IC JK LMNOG BBPQ RQQS| After dark | A |
| Near the South Dakota border | B |
| The moon is out hunting everywhere | C |
| Delivering fire | B |
| And walking down hallways | D |
| Of a diamond | E |
| - | |
| Behind a tree | F |
| It ights on the ruins | G |
| Of a white city | F |
| Frost frost | H |
| - | |
| Where are they gone | I |
| Who lived there | C |
| - | |
| Bundled away under wings | J |
| And dark faces | K |
| - | |
| I am sick | L |
| Of it and I go on | M |
| Living alone alone | N |
| Past the charred silos past the hidden graves | O |
| Of Chippewas and Norwegians | G |
| - | |
| This cold winter | B |
| Moon spills the inhuman fire | B |
| Of jewels | P |
| Into my hands | Q |
| - | |
| Dead riches dead hands the moon | R |
| Darkens | Q |
| And I am lost in the beautiful white ruins | Q |
| Of America | S |
James Arlington Wright
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