The Cossacks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAD AEFGH AIJKL MNOPQ RSTQU| For Jews the Cossacks are always coming | A |
| Therefore I think the sun spot on my arm | B |
| is melanoma Therefore I celebrate | C |
| New Year's Eve by counting | A |
| my annual dead | D |
| - | |
| My mother when she was dying | A |
| spoke to her visitors of books | E |
| and travel displaying serenity | F |
| as a form of manners though | G |
| I could tell the difference | H |
| - | |
| But when I watched you planning | A |
| for a life you knew | I |
| you'd never have I couldn't explain | J |
| your genuine smile in the face | K |
| of disaster Was it denial | L |
| - | |
| laced with acceptance Or was it | M |
| generations of being English | N |
| Bront euml 's Lucy in Villette | O |
| living as if no fire raged | P |
| beneath her dun colored dress | Q |
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| I want to live the way you did | R |
| preparing for next year's famine with wine | S |
| and music as if it were a ten course banquet | T |
| But listen those are hoofbeats | Q |
| on the frosty autumn air | U |
Linda Pastan
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