Painted Head Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFG HIJK LMNO NAPQ ARST AUVU EAWW XTYT| By dark severance the apparition head | A |
| Smiles from the air a capital on no | B |
| Column or a Platonic perhaps head | A |
| On a canvas sky depending from nothing | C |
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| Stirs up an old illusion of grandeur | D |
| By tickling the instinct of heads to be | E |
| Absolute and to try decapitation | F |
| And to play truant from the body bush | G |
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| But too happy and beautiful for those sorts | H |
| Of head homekeeping heads are happiest | I |
| Discovers maybe thirty unwidowed years | J |
| Of not dishonoring the faithful stem | K |
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| Is nameless and has authored for the evil | L |
| Historian headhunters neither book | M |
| Nor state and is therefore distinct from tart | N |
| Heads with crowns and guilty gallery heads | O |
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| Wherefore the extravagant device of art | N |
| Unhousing by abstraction this once head | A |
| Was capital irony by a loving hand | P |
| That knew the no treason of a head like this | Q |
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| Makes repentance in an unlovely head | A |
| For having vinegarly traduced the flesh | R |
| Till the hurt flesh recusing the hard egg | S |
| Is shrunken to its own deathlike surface | T |
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| And an image thus The body bears the head | A |
| So hardly one they terribly are two | U |
| Feeds and obeys and unto please what end | V |
| Not to the glory of tyrant head but to | U |
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| The estate of body Beauty is of body | E |
| The flesh contouring shallowly on a head | A |
| Is a rock garden needing body's love | W |
| And best bodiness to colorify | W |
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| The big blue birds sitting and sea shell cats | X |
| And caves and on the iron acropolis | T |
| To spread the hyacinthine hair and rear | Y |
| The olive garden for the nightingales | T |
John Crowe Ransom
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