Sunday: New Guinea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCC ECEC FCCC CGCG| The bugle sounds the measured call to prayers | A |
| The band starts bravely with a clarion hymn | B |
| From every side singly in groups in pairs | A |
| Each to his kind of service comes to worship Him | B |
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| Our faces washed our hearts in the right place | C |
| We kneel or stand or listen from our tents | D |
| Half naked natives with their kind of grace | C |
| Move down the road with balanced staffs like mendicants | C |
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| And over the hill the guns bang like a door | E |
| And planes repeat their mission in the heights | C |
| The jungle outmaneuvers creeping war | E |
| And crawls within the circle of our sacred rites | C |
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| I long for our disheveled Sundays home | F |
| Breakfast the comics news of latest crimes | C |
| Talk without reference and palindromes | C |
| Sleep and the Philharmonic and the ponderous Times | C |
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| I long for lounging in the afternoons | C |
| Of clean intelligent warmth my brother s mind | G |
| Books and thin plates and flowers and shining spoons | C |
| And your love s presence snowy beautiful and kind | G |
Karl Shapiro
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