Snow Dance For The Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC BBDCBEF CGHIABJBBBK CCDBBBBLBCJB| Dance little children it is holy twilight | A |
| Have you hung paper flowers about the necks of the ikons | B |
| Dance soft but very gaily on tip toes like the snow | C |
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| Spread your little pinafores | B |
| And courtesy as the snow does | B |
| The snow that bends this way and that | D |
| In silent salutation | C |
| Do not wait to warm your hands about the fires | B |
| Do not mind the rough licking of the wind | E |
| Dance forth into the shaggy night that shakes itself upon you | F |
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| Dance beneath the Kremlin towers golden | C |
| In the royal | G |
| Purple of the sky | H |
| But not there where the light is strongest | I |
| Bright hair is dazzling in the light | A |
| Dance in the dim violet places | B |
| Where the snow throws out a faint lustre | J |
| Like the lustre of dead faces | B |
| Snow downier than wild geese feathers | B |
| Enough filling for five hundred pillows | B |
| By the long deep trench of the dead | K |
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| Bend little children | C |
| To the rhythm of the snow | C |
| That undulates this way and that | D |
| In silver spirals | B |
| Cup your hands like tiny chalices | B |
| Let the flakes fill up the rosy | B |
| Hollows of your palms | B |
| And alight upon your hair | L |
| Like kisses that cling softly | B |
| A moment and let go | C |
| Like many kisses falling altogether | J |
| Quick cool kisses | B |
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