Song For The Last Act Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDC A EFFGHIIH E JKKLMNNM J| Now that I have your face by heart I look | A |
| Less at its features than its darkening frame | B |
| Where quince and melon yellow as young flame | B |
| Lie with quilled dahlias and the shepherd's crook | A |
| Beyond a garden There in insolent ease | C |
| The lead and marble figures watch the show | D |
| Of yet another summer loath to go | D |
| Although the scythes hang in the apple trees | C |
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| Now that I have your face by heart I look | A |
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| Now that I have your voice by heart I read | E |
| In the black chords upon a dulling page | F |
| Music that is not meant for music's cage | F |
| Whose emblems mix with words that shake and bleed | G |
| The staves are shuttled over with a stark | H |
| Unprinted silence In a double dream | I |
| I must spell out the storm the running stream | I |
| The beat's too swift The notes shift in the dark | H |
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| Now that I have your voice by heart I read | E |
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| Now that I have your heart by heart I see | J |
| The wharves with their great ships and architraves | K |
| The rigging and the cargo and the slaves | K |
| On a strange beach under a broken sky | L |
| O not departure but a voyage done | M |
| The bales stand on the stone the anchor weeps | N |
| Its red rust downward and the long vine creeps | N |
| Beside the salt herb in the lengthening sun | M |
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| Now that I have your heart by heart I see | J |
Louise Bogan
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