To A Blossoming Pear Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGCG HIJDKLKMC NOCP ABQRSTUVGQWXQYZ A2AB2BQ| Beautiful natural blossoms | A |
| Pure delicate body | B |
| You stand without trembling | C |
| Little mist of fallen starlight | D |
| Perfect beyond my reach | E |
| How I envy you | F |
| For if you could only listen | G |
| I would tell you something | C |
| Something human | G |
| - | |
| An old man | H |
| Appeared to me once | I |
| In the unendurable snow | J |
| He had a singe of white | D |
| Beard on his face | K |
| He paused on a street in Minneapolis | L |
| And stroked my face | K |
| Give it to me he begged | M |
| I'll pay you anything | C |
| - | |
| I flinched Both terrified | N |
| We slunk away | O |
| Each in his own way dodging | C |
| The cruel darts of the cold | P |
| - | |
| Beautiful natural blossoms | A |
| How could you possibly | B |
| Worry or bother or care | Q |
| About the ashamed hopeless | R |
| Old man He was so near death | S |
| He was willing to take | T |
| Any love he could get | U |
| Even at the risk | V |
| Of some mocking policeman | G |
| Or some cute young wiseacre | Q |
| Smashing his dentures | W |
| Perhaps leading him on | X |
| To a dark place and there | Q |
| Kicking him in his dead groin | Y |
| Just for the fun of it | Z |
| - | |
| Young tree unburdened | A2 |
| By anything but your beautiful natural blossoms | A |
| And dew the dark | B2 |
| Blood in my body drags me | B |
| Down with my brother | Q |
James Arlington Wright
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