The Suicide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAADEAFAGHAIJAKLA| And this ladies and gentlemen whom I am not in fact | A |
| Conducting was his office all those minutes ago | B |
| This man you never heard of These are the bills | C |
| In the intray the ash in the ashtray the grey memoranda stacked | A |
| Against him the serried ranks of the box files the packed | A |
| Jury of his unanswered correspondence | D |
| Nodding under the paperweight in the breeze | E |
| From the window by which he left and here is the cracked | A |
| Receiver that never got mended and here is the jotter | F |
| With his last doodle which might be his own digestive tract | A |
| Ulcer and all or might be the flowery maze | G |
| Through which he had wandered deliciously till he stumbled | H |
| Suddenly finally conscious of all he lacked | A |
| On a manhole under the hollyhocks The pencil | I |
| Point had obviously broken yet when he left this room | J |
| By catdrop sleight of foot or simple vanishing act | A |
| To those who knew him for all that mess in the street | K |
| This man with the shy smile has left behind | L |
| Something that was intact | A |
Louis Macneice
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