Elegy For An Enemy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJKKKKK HCHCLFLF MKNKLKLK HOLOPHPH QCQCRSRS| For G H | A |
| - | |
| Say does that stupid earth | B |
| Where they have laid her | C |
| Bind still her sullen mirth | B |
| Mirth which betrayed her | C |
| Do the lush grasses hold | D |
| Greenly and glad | E |
| That brittle perfect gold | D |
| She alone had | E |
| - | |
| Smugly the common crew | F |
| Over their knitting | G |
| Mourn her as butchers do | F |
| Sheep throats they're slitting | G |
| She was my enemy | H |
| One of the best of them | I |
| Would she come back to me | H |
| God damn the rest of them | I |
| - | |
| Damn them the flabby fat | J |
| Sleek little darlings | K |
| We gave them tit for tat | J |
| Snarlings for snarlings | K |
| Squashy pomposities | K |
| Shocked at our violence | K |
| Let not one tactful hiss | K |
| Break her new silence | K |
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| Maids of antiquity | H |
| Look well upon her | C |
| Ice was her chastity | H |
| Spotless her honor | C |
| Neighbors with breasts of snow | L |
| Dames of much virtue | F |
| How she could flame and glow | L |
| Lord how she hurt you | F |
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| She was a woman and | M |
| Tender at times | K |
| Delicate was her hand | N |
| One of her crimes | K |
| Hair that strayed elfinly | L |
| Lips red as haws | K |
| You with the ready lie | L |
| Was that the cause | K |
| - | |
| Rest you my enemy | H |
| Slain without fault | O |
| Life smacks but tastelessly | L |
| Lacking your salt | O |
| Stuck in a bog whence naught | P |
| May catapult me | H |
| Come from the grave long sought | P |
| Come and insult me | H |
| - | |
| WE knew that sugared stuff | Q |
| Poisoned the other | C |
| Rough as the wind is rough | Q |
| Sister and brother | C |
| Breathing the ether clear | R |
| Others forlorn have found | S |
| Oh for that peace austere | R |
| She and her scorn have found | S |
Stephen Vincent Benet
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