In Harness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGCB HIJKLMCNCEOPQR STJUVWUXEY IZA2B2C2D2CJD2E2C2 F2SJU A G2H2C2H2C2C2G2C2G2G2 I2G2| I | A |
| - | |
| The foreman's head | B |
| slowly circling | C |
| White rims | D |
| under yellow disks of eyes | E |
| Gold hairs | F |
| starting out of a blond scowl | G |
| Hovering disappearing recurring | C |
| the foreman's head | B |
| - | |
| Droning of power machines | H |
| droning of girl with adenoids | I |
| Arms flapping with a fin like motion | J |
| under sun burning down through a sky light like a glass lid | K |
| Light skating on the rims of wheels | L |
| boring in gimlet points | M |
| Needles flickering | C |
| fierce white threads of light | N |
| fine as a wasp's sting | C |
| Light in sweat drops brighter than eyes | E |
| and calico pallid faces | O |
| and bodies throwing off smells | P |
| and the air a bloated presence pressing on the walls | Q |
| and the silence a compressed scream | R |
| - | |
| Allons enfants de la patrie | S |
| Electric piercing shrill as a fife | T |
| the voice of a little Russian | J |
| breaks out of the shivered circle | U |
| Another voice rises another and another | V |
| leaps like flame to flame | W |
| And life surging clamorous swarming like a rabble | U |
| crazily fluttering ragged petticoats | X |
| comes rushing back into torpid eyes | E |
| like suddenly yielded gates | Y |
| - | |
| The girl with adenoids | I |
| rocks on her hams | Z |
| A torrent of song | A2 |
| strains at her throat | B2 |
| gurgles rushes gouges her blocked pipes | C2 |
| Her feet beat a wild tattoo | D2 |
| head flung back and pelvis lifting | C |
| to the white body of the sun | J |
| Mates now these two | D2 |
| goddess and god | E2 |
| Marchons | C2 |
| - | |
| Only the power machines drone | F2 |
| with metallic docility | S |
| under the flaxen head of the foreman | J |
| poised like an amazed gull | U |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| To day | G2 |
| little French merchant men | H2 |
| with pointed beards | C2 |
| and fat American merchant men | H2 |
| without any beards | C2 |
| drive to a feast of buttered squabs | C2 |
| The band accoutered and neatly caparisoned | G2 |
| plays the Marseillaise | C2 |
| And I think of a wild stallion newly caught | G2 |
| flanks yet taut and nostrils spread | G2 |
| to the smell of a racing mare | I2 |
| hitched to a grocer's cart | G2 |
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