'out, Out' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJEKILMNOPQP NRSTUEVEWXTCYZThe buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard | A |
And made dust and dropped stove length sticks of wood | B |
Sweet scented stuff when the breeze drew across it | C |
And from there those that lifted eyes could count | D |
Five mountain ranges one behind the other | E |
Under the sunset far into Vermont | F |
And the saw snarled and rattled snarled and rattled | G |
As it ran light or had to bear a load | H |
And nothing happened day was all but done | I |
Call it a day I wish they might have said | J |
To please the boy by giving him the half hour | E |
That a boy counts so much when saved from work | K |
His sister stood beside them in her apron | I |
To tell them Supper At the word the saw | L |
As if to prove saws knew what supper meant | M |
Leaped out at the boy's hand or seemed to leap | N |
He must have given the hand However it was | O |
Neither refused the meeting But the hand | P |
The boy's first outcry was a rueful laugh | Q |
As he swung toward them holding up the hand | P |
Half in appeal but half as if to keep | N |
The life from spilling Then the boy saw all | R |
Since he was old enough to know big boy | S |
Doing a man's work though a child at heart | T |
He saw all spoiled Don't let him cut my hand off | U |
The doctor when he comes Don't let him sister | E |
So But the hand was gone already | V |
The doctor put him in the dark of ether | E |
He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath | W |
And then the watcher at his pulse took fright | X |
No one believed They listened at his heart | T |
Little less nothing and that ended it | C |
No more to build on there And they since they | Y |
Were not the one dead turned to their affairs | Z |
Robert Lee Frost
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