When We Were Here Together Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDFCCGHIAGHJKLBC GBIABMD| when we were here together in a place we did not know nor one | A |
| another | B |
| A bit of grass held between the teeth for a moment bright hair on the | C |
| wind | D |
| What we were we did not know nor even the grass or the flame of | E |
| hair turning to ash on the wind | D |
| But they lied about that From the beginning they lied To the child | F |
| telling him that there was somewhere anger against him and a | C |
| hatred against him and the only reason for his being in the | C |
| world | G |
| But never did they tell him that the only evil and danger was in | H |
| themselves that they alone were the prisoners and the betrayers | I |
| that they they alone were responsible for what was being done | A |
| in the world | G |
| And they told the child to starve and to kill the child that was within | H |
| him for only by doing this could he become a useful and adjusted | J |
| member of the community which they had prepared for him | K |
| And this time alas they did not lie | L |
| And with the death of the child was born a thing that had neither | B |
| the character of a man nor the character of a child but was a | C |
| horrible and monstrous parody of the two and it is in this world | G |
| now that the flesh of man s spirit lies twisted and despoiled under | B |
| the indifferent stars | I |
| When we were here together in a place we did not know nor one | A |
| another | B |
| O green the bit of warm grass between our teeth O beautiful the hair | M |
| of our mortal goddess on the indifferent wind | D |
Kenneth Patchen
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