The City Planners Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFGGHIC JKALCMCCCC NII OCC CCOIO PCQ RC| Cruising these residential Sunday | A |
| streets in dry August sunlight | B |
| what offends us is | C |
| the sanities | C |
| the houses in pedantic rows the planted | D |
| sanitary trees assert | E |
| levelness of surface like a rebuke | F |
| to the dent in our car door | G |
| No shouting here or | G |
| shatter of glass nothing more abrupt | H |
| than the rational whine of a power mower | I |
| cutting a straight swath in the discouraged grass | C |
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| But though the driveways neatly | J |
| sidestep hysteria | K |
| by being even the roofs all display | A |
| the same slant of avoidance to the hot sky | L |
| certain things | C |
| the smell of spilled oil a faint | M |
| sickness lingering in the garages | C |
| a splash of paint on brick surprising as a bruise | C |
| a plastic hose poised in a vicious | C |
| coil even the too fixed stare of the wide windows | C |
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| give momentary access to | N |
| the landscape behind or under | I |
| the future cracks in the plaster | I |
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| when the houses capsized will slide | O |
| obliquely into the clay seas gradual as glaciers | C |
| that right now nobody notices | C |
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| That is where the City Planners | C |
| with the insane faces of political conspirators | C |
| are scattered over unsurveyed | O |
| territories concealed from each other | I |
| each in his own private blizzard | O |
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| guessing directions they sketch | P |
| transitory lines rigid as wooden borders | C |
| on a wall in the white vanishing air | Q |
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| tracing the panic of suburb | R |
| order in a bland madness of snows | C |
Margaret Atwood
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