The Assignation (pons Asinorum) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DCE FGHI JKLMMN COPQMCMRSTUV| Many devils are in woods in waters in wilderness and in dark | A |
| pooly places ready to hurt people some are also in thick | B |
| black clouds Martin Luther | C |
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| Masaccio to the Florentine Renaissance but a naught | D |
| every man the same St Francis the same as a Jack the Ripper | C |
| their rosy surfaces filled | E |
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| Like an Old Testament curse | F |
| he is loosed upon the earth | G |
| Ecking out his pound of flesh | H |
| delivering misery in sordidness he parboils the land | I |
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| A modern day Tantalus up to his throat | J |
| in burning lies | K |
| his death is to live in the contemporary sense | L |
| the thousand cuts | M |
| to bury the skies as a dread Caiaphas | M |
| into the contradiction the snares of his being | N |
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| Measure for measure | C |
| his blond mane pale scarf | O |
| are hallmarks of the doomed Dutchman searching out the | P |
| Coromandel | Q |
| like Cain stumbling upon existence | M |
| he hearkens back to the original Murderer | C |
| has sold his inheritance for a pittance | M |
| and by doing so has ridiculed the human condition | R |
| with his life charged obscenity | S |
| his blond beast scowl curdled about respectability's neck | T |
| his fang tussled face a menacing white cigarette | U |
| the soul imprisoned jailer to his teeth breath and brain | V |
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