Another Version Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDBEFBBGHEIJAKLMB NEBO| Our trees are aspens but people | A |
| mistake them for birches | B |
| they think of us as characters | B |
| in a Russian novel Kitty and Levin | C |
| living contentedly in the country | D |
| Our friends from the city watch the birds | B |
| and rabbits feeding together | E |
| on top of the deep white snow | F |
| We have Russian winters in Illinois | B |
| but no sleighbells possums instead of wolves | B |
| no trusted servants to do our work | G |
| As in a Russian play an old man | H |
| lives in our house he is my father | E |
| he lets go of life in such slow motion | I |
| year after year that the grief | J |
| is stuck inside me a poisoned apple | A |
| that won't go up or down | K |
| But like the three sisters we rarely speak | L |
| of what keeps us awake at night | M |
| like them we complain about things | B |
| that don't really matter and talk | N |
| of our pleasures and of the future | E |
| we tell each other the willows | B |
| are early this year hazy with green | O |
Lisel Mueller
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