Letter To An Archaeologist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCBDECFGHIH| Citizen enemy mama's boy sucker utter | A |
| garbage panhandler swine refujew verrucht | B |
| a scalp so often scalded with boiling water | A |
| that the puny brain feels completely cooked | B |
| Yes we have dwelt here in this concrete brick wooden | C |
| rubble which you now arrive to sift | B |
| All our wires were crossed barbed tangled or interwoven | C |
| Also we didn't love our women but they conceived | B |
| Sharp is the sound of pickax that hurts dead iron | D |
| still it's gentler than what we've been told or have said ourselves | E |
| Stranger move carefully through our carrion | C |
| what seems carrion to you is freedom to our cells | F |
| Leave our names alone Don't reconstruct those vowels | G |
| consonants and so forth they won't resemble larks | H |
| but a demented bloodhound whose maw devours | I |
| its own traces feces and barks and barks | H |
Joseph Brodsky
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