The Elementary Scene Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJ KLMLN OPQRS D| Looking back in my mind I can see | A |
| The white sun like a tin plate | B |
| Over the wooden turning of the weeds | C |
| The street jerking a wet swing | D |
| To end by the wall the children sang | E |
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| The thin grass by the girls' door | F |
| Trodden on straggling yellow and rotten | G |
| And the gaunt field with its one tied cow | H |
| The dead land waking sadly to my life | I |
| Stir and curl deeper in the eyes of time | J |
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| The rotting pumpkin under the stairs | K |
| Bundled with switches and the cold ashes | L |
| Still holds for me in its unwavering eyes | M |
| The stinking shapes of cranes and witches | L |
| Their path slanting down the pumpkin's sky | N |
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| Its stars beckon through the frost like cottages | O |
| Homes of the Bear the Hunter of that absent star | P |
| The dark where the flushed child struggles into sleep | Q |
| Till leaning a lifetime to the comforter | R |
| I float above the small limbs like their dream | S |
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| I I the future that mends everything | D |
Randall Jarrell
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