To Melvin Gardner: Suicide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCD EDEDFFFD GDGDHHHD| A flight of doves with wanton wings | A |
| Flash white against the sky | B |
| In the leafy copse an oriole sings | A |
| And a robin sings hard by | B |
| Sun and shadow are out on the hills | C |
| The swallow has followed the daffodils | C |
| In leaf and blade life throbs and thrills | C |
| Through the wild warm heart of May | D |
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| To have seen the sun come back to have seen | E |
| Children again at play | D |
| To have heard the thrush where the woods are green | E |
| Welcome the new born day | D |
| To have felt the soft grass cool to the feet | F |
| To have smelt earth's incense heavenly sweet | F |
| To have shared the laughter along the street | F |
| And then to have died in May | D |
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| A thousand roses will blossom red | G |
| A thousand hearts be gay | D |
| For the summer lingers just ahead | G |
| And June is on her way | D |
| The bee must bestir him to fill his cells | H |
| The moon and the stars will weave new spells | H |
| Of love and the music of marriage bells | H |
| And oh to be dead in May | D |
John Charles Mcneill
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