The Bridge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS| Barbed wire snags like briars when | A |
| fence posts rot in goldenrod | B |
| the cows are gone the cowpath | C |
| a thinning along the creek | D |
| to follow upstream until | E |
| water narrows gray planks lean | F |
| over the flow like a book | G |
| open but left unfinished | H |
| like this bridge was when the man | I |
| who started it took to his | J |
| death bed watched from there a son | K |
| drive the last nails drive the truck | L |
| across so he might die less | M |
| burdened that night The farmhouse | N |
| is razed now the barn and shed | O |
| bare quilts of ground All that's left | P |
| some fallen down four by fours | Q |
| a few rusty nails this bridge | R |
| the quick or the dead can't cross | S |
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