The Shape Of Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE DFGFH IHJJB KLLMN IOPQP BRBSS TQUVU| What does love look like We know | A |
| the shape of death Death is a cloud | B |
| immense and awesome At first a lid | C |
| is lifted from the eye of light | D |
| there is a clap of sound a white blossom | E |
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| belches from the jaw of fright | D |
| a pillared cloud churns from white to gray | F |
| like a monstrous brain that bursts and burns | G |
| then turns sickly black spilling away | F |
| filling the whole sky with ashes of dread | H |
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| thickly it wraps between the clean sea | I |
| and the moon the earth's green head | H |
| Trapped in its cocoon its choking breath | J |
| we know the shape of death | J |
| Death is a cloud | B |
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| What does love look like | K |
| Is it a particle a star | L |
| invisible entirely beyond the microscope and Palomar | L |
| A dimension unimagined past the length of hope | M |
| Is it a climate far and fair that we shall never dare | N |
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| discover What is its color and its alchemy | I |
| Is it a jewel in the earth can it be dug | O |
| Or dredged from the sea Can it be bought | P |
| Can it be sown and harvested | Q |
| Is it a shy beast to be caught | P |
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| Death is a cloud | B |
| immense a clap of sound | R |
| Love is little and not loud | B |
| It nests within each cell and it | S |
| cannot be split | S |
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| It is a ray a seed a note a word | T |
| a secret motion of our air and blood | Q |
| It is not alien it is near | U |
| our very skin | V |
| a sheath to keep us pure of fear | U |
May Swenson
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