A Camp In The Prussian Forest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGGHHIJ BBKK LLMMNNOO PPQQ RSRS| I walk beside the prisoners to the road | A |
| Load on puffed load | A |
| Their corpses stacked like sodden wood | B |
| Lie barred or galled with blood | C |
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| By the charred warehouse No one comes to day | D |
| In the old way | D |
| To knock the fillings from their teeth | E |
| The dark coned common wreath | E |
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| Is plaited for their grave a kind of grief | F |
| The living leaf | F |
| Clings to the planted profitable | G |
| Pine if it is able | G |
| The boughs sigh mile on green calm breathing mile | H |
| From this dead file | H |
| The planners ruled for them One year | I |
| They sent a million here | J |
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| Here men were drunk like water burnt like wood | B |
| The fat of good | B |
| and evil the breast's star of hope | K |
| were rendered into soap | K |
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| I paint the star I sawed from yellow pine | L |
| And plant the sign | L |
| In soil that does not yet refuse | M |
| Its usual Jews | M |
| Their first asylum But the white dwarfed star | N |
| This dead white star | N |
| Hides nothing pays for nothing smoke | O |
| Fouls it a yellow joke | O |
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| The needles of the wreath are chalked with ash | P |
| A filmy trash | P |
| Litters the black woods with the death | Q |
| of men and one last breath | Q |
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| Curls from the monstrous chimney I laugh aloud | R |
| Again and again | S |
| The star laughs from its rotting shroud | R |
| Of flesh O star of men | S |
Randall Jarrell
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