October Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DBE FG HF IJC KCL MN OP QN R SC TS C| Is it winter again is it cold again | A |
| didn't Frank just slip on the ice | B |
| didn't he heal weren't the spring seeds planted | C |
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| didn't the night end | D |
| didn't the melting ice | B |
| flood the narrow gutters | E |
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| wasn't my body | F |
| rescued wasn't it safe | G |
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| didn't the scar form invisible | H |
| above the injury | F |
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| terror and cold | I |
| didn't they just end wasn't the back garden | J |
| harrowed and planted | C |
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| I remember how the earth felt red and dense | K |
| in stiff rows weren't the seeds planted | C |
| didn't vines climb the south wall | L |
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| I can't hear your voice | M |
| for the wind's cries whistling over the bare ground | N |
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| I no longer care | O |
| what sound it makes | P |
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| when was I silenced when did it first seem | Q |
| pointless to describe that sound | N |
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| what it sounds like can't change what it is | R |
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| didn't the night end wasn't the earth | S |
| safe when it was planted | C |
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| didn't we plant the seeds | T |
| weren't we necessary to the earth | S |
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| the vines were they harvested | C |
Louise Gluck
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