Two In August Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDB EEFFE GHIIJ KKLLK MMEEM NNOOF| Two that could not have lived their single lives | A |
| As can some husbands and wives | B |
| Did something strange they tensed their vocal cords | C |
| And attacked each other with silences and words | D |
| Like catapulted stones and arrowed knives | B |
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| Dawn was not yet night is for loving or sleeping | E |
| Sweet dreams or safekeeping | E |
| Yet he of the wide brows that were used to laurel | F |
| And she the famed for gentleness must quarrel | F |
| Furious both of them and scared and weeping | E |
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| How sleepers groan twitch wake to such a mood | G |
| Is not well understood | H |
| Nor why two entities grown almost one | I |
| Should rend and murder trying to get undone | I |
| With individual tigers in their blood | J |
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| She in terror fled from the marriage chamber | K |
| Circuiting the dark rooms like a string of amber | K |
| Round and round and back | L |
| And would not light one lamp against the black | L |
| And heard the clock that clanged Remember Remember | K |
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| And he must tread barefooted the dim lawn | M |
| Soon he was up and gone | M |
| High in the trees the night mastered birds were crying | E |
| With fear upon their tongues no singing nor flying | E |
| Which are their lovely attitudes by dawn | M |
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| Whether those bird cries were of heaven or hell | N |
| There is no way to tell | N |
| In the long ditch of darkness the man walked | O |
| Under the hackberry trees where the birds talked | O |
| With words too sad and strange to syllable | F |
John Crowe Ransom
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