What The Dog Perhaps Hears Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEGHIJKLMNOPQRK K KASKKTU| If an inaudible whistle | A |
| blown between our lips | B |
| can send him home to us | C |
| then silence is perhaps | D |
| the sound of spiders breathing | E |
| and roots mining the earth | F |
| it may be asparagus heaving | E |
| headfirst into the light | G |
| and the long brown sound | H |
| of cracked cups when it happens | I |
| We would like to ask the dog | J |
| if there is a continuous whir | K |
| because the child in the house | L |
| keeps growing if the snake | M |
| really stretches full length | N |
| without a click and the sun | O |
| breaks through clouds without | P |
| a decibel of effort | Q |
| whether in autumn when the trees | R |
| dry up their wells there isn't a shudder | K |
| too high for us to hear | K |
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| What is it like up there | K |
| above the shut off level | A |
| of our simple ears | S |
| For us there was no birth cry | K |
| the newborn bird is suddenly here | K |
| the egg broken the nest alive | T |
| and we heard nothing when the world changed | U |
Lisel Mueller
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