Sanguine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDE FGHI HJK LMNO FPQRRSTUO VWRXFRFT TRYYW ZA2RB2FRAC2D2R RE2 RHX F2RG2H2FPI2 VH2RJ2 H2FK2R RFXRB XFL2M2E N2X| The clock indicates the hour but what does enternity indicate | A |
| Whitman | B |
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| Imagine being told cubism isn't painting That | C |
| Beardsley didn't die at unheralded as a boy genius | D |
| or Corot didn't come to Paris after all | E |
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| Imagine The Louvre without a rooftop the | F |
| intelligentsia sitting down to a ragged table | G |
| surrounded by sawdust intellects Proust not being | H |
| able to write his name | I |
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| Now that's splendour that's in depth feeling | H |
| That's emotion to pull your socks or catch the bus on | J |
| a brittle day | K |
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| It's easy Try to feel the event It's People are | L |
| perturbed or so we are told because the century's | M |
| getting old Time's rushing by There's an alarm clock | N |
| set to buzz at eternity's gate Midnight | O |
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| In probing the malaise that hit Europe circa | F |
| psychologists would have us believe the world grew | P |
| despondent Despondent because a whole hundred | Q |
| year cycle was about to elapse despondent because | R |
| life itself was running out Those poor Edwardians | R |
| Poor lovers of the elegant the late Victorians belle | S |
| epoquers A penny for their thoughts when | T |
| confronting a Picasso without the vantage of | U |
| hindsight | O |
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| If Europe and its child bride America grew uneasy in | V |
| the declining years of the past century How then our | W |
| era These same psychologists pinpoint people's | R |
| spirits rise in the opening years of a new century | X |
| Now we're poised for the really big one the | F |
| cataclysm What a boon for the absurdists Peaches | R |
| and cream not just one century dangling but the | F |
| culmination of ten | T |
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| There's even a word for it Millenium I'll say it again | T |
| Better yet a mere two millenia since Christ's | R |
| departure we are poised again on the threshold Half | Y |
| half Like a party twelve pack six of one half | Y |
| dozen of the other | W |
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| Remember when contemplating your ennui or | Z |
| malaise whichever word is currently most | A2 |
| fashionable you can hardly figure for less Eternity's | R |
| given to you my peers a singular opportunity And | B2 |
| from what we know of the th century it should be a | F |
| grand slam homer Already the clean up batter is | R |
| staged for action The bat looms over the plate | A |
| There's so much bad news it's enough to make an | C2 |
| optimist greedy After all with this much horror there | D2 |
| is caused only for danse macabre celebrations | R |
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| Only years left before the digital watch rolls | R |
| over before the cannon with the flower pops out | E2 |
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| Those forward looking voyeurs of hundred years | R |
| back must have felt cheated when mentally reversing | H |
| their lot with the denizens of the th century | X |
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| Page | F2 |
| In you could only gripe about the aging process | R |
| of a single tenth of one component In you've got | G2 |
| that and the Millenia Trendy things like atmospheric | H2 |
| pressure negetive ions adverse body rhythms and a | F |
| welter of other pseudo impressive formula abound to | P |
| help out in your witchhunt | I2 |
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| Surprise saw comets omens signs coded in | V |
| stars speeding ecross the sky a host of ditlurbing | H2 |
| natural phenomena to boot The vigilant saw meteors | R |
| at Caesar's death | J2 |
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| The National Enquirer predicts Australia will break | H2 |
| into the sea Californians will be upstaged The | F |
| futurists will all need waterwings The Club of Rome | K2 |
| hints the next years auger more chilling holocausts | R |
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| Everywhere survival scenarios proliferate Pro lifers | R |
| will rearrange proverbial deck chairs on the | F |
| Titanic Soothsayers will become all the rage as we | X |
| plot myriad escapes A year's supply of canned goods | R |
| anyone | B |
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| has a lot to teach us Umbrellas a gentle ennui | X |
| like fine mist compounded by traffic in out of the | F |
| Moulin Rouge Perhaps a surfeit of absinthe helps just | L2 |
| as its equivalent does today Cheer up there will | M2 |
| always be an England doesn't sound so bad after all | E |
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| And there's always that one recruiting poster What | N2 |
| did you do in the Great War daddy | X |
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