Ebony Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGAHHIJKGELMFNO PF| A frightening stillness will mark that day | A |
| And the shadow of streetlights and fire alarms will exhaust the light | B |
| All things the quietest and the loudest will be silent | C |
| The suckling brats will die | D |
| The tugboats the locomotives the wind will glide by in silence | E |
| We will hear the great voice which coming from far away will pass over the city | F |
| We will wait a long time for it | G |
| Then at the rich man's time of day | A |
| When the dust the stones the missing tears | H |
| form the sun's robe on the huge deserted squares | H |
| We shall finally hear the voice | I |
| It will growl at doors for a long while | J |
| It will pass over the town tearing up flags and breaking windowpanes | K |
| We will hear it | G |
| What silence before it but still greater the silence | E |
| it will not disturb but will hold guilty will brand and denounce | L |
| Day of sorrows and joys | M |
| The day the day to come when the voice will pass over the city | F |
| A ghostly seagull told me she loved me as much as I loved her | N |
| That this great terrible silence was my love | O |
| That the wind carrying the voice was the great revolt of the world | P |
| And that the voice would look kindly on me | F |
Robert Desnos
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