The Men Who Raised The Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJ KLMNAOPQROSTUV TWXYZA2B2N| If they had hair it was gray | A |
| the backs of their hands wormy | B |
| currents of blue veins old men | C |
| the undertaker believed | D |
| had already lost too much | E |
| to the earth to be bothered | F |
| by what they found didn't find | G |
| brought there that May afternoon | H |
| dogwood trees bloomed like white wreaths | I |
| across Jocassee's valley | J |
| - | |
| They took their time sought the shade | K |
| when they tired let cigarettes | L |
| and silence fill the minutes | M |
| until the undertaker | N |
| nodded at his watch and they | A |
| worked again the only sound | O |
| the rasp and shuck of shovels | P |
| as they settled deeper in graves | Q |
| twice dug sounding for the thud | R |
| of struck wood not always found | O |
| sometimes something other silk | S |
| scarf or tie buckle button | T |
| nestled in some darker earth | U |
| enough to give a name to | V |
| - | |
| One quit before they were done | T |
| lay down as if death were now | W |
| too close to resist and so | X |
| another stepped in his grave | Y |
| finished up but not before | Z |
| they shut his eyes laid him with | A2 |
| all the others to be saved | B2 |
| if not from death from water | N |
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