Cienfuegos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHI JKEE EELMN| The white pin wheel of heat turns up the grasses' edge | A |
| Some dried plant stalks shrivel | B |
| then melt openly into layers of fire | C |
| It is end time for the community's Christmas trees | D |
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| Something akin to burnt offerings | E |
| reluctant souls or | F |
| hedging captives kept alive | G |
| ghoulishly for some cannibal's feast | H |
| this festival of crackling | I |
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| They have served their purpose now | J |
| Bound no faggots need be applied | K |
| Contumely the quiet desperation darkens | E |
| the child's face | E |
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| The headlights rain down on Christmas' debris | E |
| A hundred little fires as cigarette warnings | E |
| daub the night air | L |
| The forest of smoke canyon of the torch | M |
| where black marauders poke the nostril | N |
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