On The Skeleton Of A Hound Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBADDEFGHFIJKKJIL MNOMLPQRIQSTUJJVWDXJ YZ QDHA2KBFHYB2VVB2Y| Nightfall that saw the morning glories float | A |
| Tendril and string against the crumbling wall | B |
| Nurses him now his skeleton for grief | C |
| His locks for comfort curled among the leaf | C |
| Shuttles of moonlight weave his shadow tall | B |
| Milkweed and dew flow upward to his throat | A |
| Now catbird feathers plume the apple mound | D |
| And starlings drowse to winter up the ground | D |
| thickened away from speech by fear I move | E |
| Around the body Over his forepaws steep | F |
| Declivities darken down the moonlight now | G |
| And the long throat that bayed a year ago | H |
| Declines from summer Flies would love to leap | F |
| Between his eyes and hum away the space | I |
| Between the ears the hollow where a hare | J |
| Could hide another jealous dog would tumble | K |
| The bones apart angry the shining crumble | K |
| Of a great body gleaming in the air | J |
| Quivering pigeons foul his broken face | I |
| I can imagine men who search the earth | L |
| For handy resurrections overturn | M |
| The body of a beetle in its grave | N |
| Whispering men digging for gods might delve | O |
| A pocket for these bones then slowly burn | M |
| Twigs in the leaves pray for another birth | L |
| But I will turn my face away from this | P |
| Ruin of summer collapse of fur and bone | Q |
| For once a white hare huddled up the grass | R |
| The sparrows flocked away to see the race | I |
| I stood on darkness clinging to a stone | Q |
| I saw the two leaping alive on ice | S |
| On earth on leaf humus and withered vine | T |
| The rabbit splendid in a shroud of shade | U |
| The dog carved on the sunlight on the air | J |
| Fierce and magnificent his rippled hair | J |
| The cockleburs shaking around his head | V |
| Then suddenly the hare leaped beyond pain | W |
| Out of the open meadow and the hound | D |
| Followed the voiceless dancer to the moon | X |
| To dark to death to other meadows where | J |
| Singing young women dance around a fire | Y |
| Where love reveres the living | Z |
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| I alone | Q |
| Scatter this hulk about the dampened ground | D |
| And while the moon rises beyond me throw | H |
| The ribs and spine out of their perfect shape | A2 |
| For a last charm to the dead I lift the skull | K |
| And toss it over the maples like a ball | B |
| Strewn to the woods now may that spirit sleep | F |
| That flamed over the ground a year ago | H |
| I know the mole will heave a shinbone over | Y |
| The earthworm snuggle for a nap on paws | B2 |
| The honest bees build honey in the head | V |
| The earth knows how to handle the great dead | V |
| Who lived the body out and broke its laws | B2 |
| Knocked down a fence tore up a field of clover | Y |
James Arlington Wright
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