Statuary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB C D EF G HI JK L MB N O PB B FQ B RB SG OG ET UG VW X GY F ZGA2 P B2 GC2D2 JPU G E2 F2G| Bees may be trusted always | A |
| to discover the best nay the only | B |
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| human solution Let me cite | C |
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| an instance an event that | D |
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| though occurring in nature is still | E |
| in itself wholly abnormal I refer | F |
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| to the manner in which the bees | G |
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| will dispose of a mouse | H |
| or a slug | I |
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| that may happen to have found its way | J |
| into the hive | K |
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| The intruder killed | L |
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| they have to deal with | M |
| the body | B |
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| which will very soon poison | N |
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| their dwelling If it be impossible | O |
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| for them to expel or dismember it | P |
| they will proceed methodically | B |
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| amp hermetically | B |
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| to enclose it in a veritable sepulcher | F |
| of propolis amp wax | Q |
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| which will tower fantastically | B |
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| above the ordinary monuments | R |
| of the city | B |
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| When we die | S |
| our bodies powder our bodies | G |
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| the vessel amp the vessel | O |
| empties | G |
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| Our dying does not fill | E |
| the hive with the stench | T |
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| of dying But outside | U |
| the world hungers | G |
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| A cockroach stung | V |
| can be dragged back out | W |
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| A careless child | X |
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| forced a snail inside with a stick once | G |
| We waxed over the orifice of its shell | Y |
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| sealing the creature in And here | F |
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| the bottom of the comb | Z |
| a mouse | G |
| driven in by winter amp lack | A2 |
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| Its pawing woke us We stung it | P |
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| dead | B2 |
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| Even before it died it reeked worse | G |
| the moment it ceased | C2 |
| twitching | D2 |
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| Now everyday | J |
| we crawl over it | P |
| to pass outside | U |
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| the wax form of what was | G |
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| staring out its airless sleep | E2 |
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| the mouse we built | F2 |
| to warn the rest from us | G |
Nick Flynn
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