Hope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEFGGHIJIKLMLNO POHOQDOOHIJIKLML| The spirit killeth but the letter giveth life | A |
| The week is dealt out like a hand | B |
| That children pick up card by card | C |
| One keeps getting the same hand | B |
| One keeps getting the same card | C |
| But twice a day except on Saturday | D |
| The wheel stops there is a crack in Time | E |
| With a hiss of soles a rattle of tin | F |
| My own gray Daemon pauses on the stair | G |
| My own bald Fortune lifts me by the hair | G |
| Woe's me woe's me In Folly's mailbox | H |
| Still laughs the postcard Hope | I |
| Your uncle in Australia | J |
| Has died and you are Pope | I |
| For many a soul has entertained | K |
| A Mailman unawares | L |
| And as you cry Impossible | M |
| A step is on the stairs | L |
| One keeps getting the same dream | N |
| Delayed marked Payment Due | O |
| The bill that one has paid | P |
| Delayed marked Payment Due | O |
| Twice a day in rotting mailbox | H |
| The white grubs are new | O |
| And Faith once more is mine | Q |
| Faithfully but Charity | D |
| Writes hopefully about a new | O |
| Asylum but Hope is as good as new | O |
| Woe's me woe's me In Folly's mailbox | H |
| Still laughs the postcard Hope | I |
| Your uncle in Australia | J |
| Has died and you are Pope | I |
| For many a soul has entertained | K |
| A mailman unawares | L |
| And as you cry Impossible | M |
| A step is on the stairs | L |
Randall Jarrell
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