Aside Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBB DEEDFF GDDGHH IJKILM NOONPP QRRQST| Mail day and over the world in a thousand drag nets | A |
| The bundles of letters are dumped on the docks and beaches | B |
| And all that is dear to the personal conscious reaches | B |
| Around us again like filings around iron magnets | C |
| And war stands aside for an hour and looks at our faces | B |
| Of total absorption that seem to have lost their places | B |
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| O demobilized for a moment a world is made human | D |
| Returns to a time that is neither the present or then | E |
| But a garland of clippings and wishes of who knows when | E |
| A time of its own creation a thing of acumen | D |
| That keeps us like movies alive with a purpose aside | F |
| From the play acting truth of the newsreel in which we have died | F |
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| And aside from the candy and pictures and books we receive | G |
| As if we were patients whose speedy recovery were certain | D |
| There is proof of the End and the lights and the bow at the curtain | D |
| After which we shall smile at each other and get up to leave | G |
| Aside from the play in the play there is all that is fact | H |
| These letters the battle in progress the place of the act | H |
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| And the optimal joy of the conflict the tears of the ads | I |
| May move us or not and the movies at night in the palms | J |
| May recall us or not to the kiss and on Sunday the psalms | K |
| May remind us of Sunday or not but aside from the lads | I |
| Who arrive like our letters still fresh from the kiss and the tear | L |
| There are mouths that are dusty and eyes that are wider than fear | M |
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| Say no more of the dead than a prayer say no more of the land | N |
| Where the body is laid in the coral than that it is far | O |
| Take your finger away from the map of wherever we are | O |
| For we lie in the map of the chart of your elderly hand | N |
| Do not hasten the future in agony too there is time | P |
| For the growth of the rose of the spirit astir in the slime | P |
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| For aside from ourselves as we are there is nothing alive | Q |
| Except as it keeps us alive not tomorrow but now | R |
| Our mail day today of the blood of the sweat of our brow | R |
| The year of our war to the end When and where we arrive | Q |
| Is no matter but how is the question we urgently need | S |
| How to love and to hate how to die how to write and to read | T |
Karl Shapiro
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