Iowa & Other Accidents Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DE FD GH GIJ DK LM MAA INO P QR STU VFH| There was snow that afternoon covering the road | A |
| which twisted toward the secret | B |
| of water the mysterious surge | C |
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| of sludge amp loam the living | D |
| Mississippi unlike the rest of the Midwest | E |
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| drawing itself through landscape There was an appointment | F |
| you were keeping | D |
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| in Moline a cheap hotel booze a little blow On the Lower | G |
| East Side a woman | H |
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| spills her martini makes a gesture | G |
| like erasure or regret It was almost Christmas | I |
| In the rear view | J |
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| suddenly the car you will always describe as oncoming | D |
| must have slipped into a skid | K |
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| and now rising up over the bank | L |
| it startles you that reflection In Moline | M |
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| the maid corners the bed straightens the clean | M |
| line of sheet Almost Christmas On the road | A |
| swirls of snow On the road | A |
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| the car hovering behind you a witness | I |
| unfortunate amp so unlike the audience permitted | N |
| the distance of fictions the artifice | O |
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| of plot And worse of course the law | P |
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| of cause amp effect I looked up | Q |
| it started to fall You must attach | R |
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| subject to verb must say | S |
| I saw and did in your rear view the car you d thought | T |
| nothing of | U |
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| the gray sedan lifting slowly from the common snow | V |
| turning and the accident | F |
| always there about to happen | H |
Kate Northrop
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