Whispers Of Immortality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJK LMNO PQRS TUVV TWXW GYZA2| Webster was much possessed by death | A |
| And saw the skull beneath the skin | B |
| And breastless creatures under ground | C |
| Leaned backward with a lipless grin | B |
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| Daffodil bulbs instead of balls | D |
| Stared from the sockets of the eyes | E |
| He knew that thought clings round dead limbs | F |
| Tightening its lusts and luxuries | G |
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| Donne I suppose was such another | H |
| Who found no substitute for sense | I |
| To seize and clutch and penetrate | J |
| Expert beyond experience | K |
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| He knew the anguish of the marrow | L |
| The ague of the skeleton | M |
| No contact possible to flesh | N |
| Allayed the fever of the bone | O |
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| Grishkin is nice her Russian eye | P |
| Is underlined for emphasis | Q |
| Uncorseted her friendly bust | R |
| Gives promise of pneumatic bliss | S |
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| The couched Brazilian jaguar | T |
| Compels the scampering marmoset | U |
| With subtle effluence of cat | V |
| Grishkin has a maisonette | V |
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| The sleek Brazilian jaguar | T |
| Does not in its arboreal gloom | W |
| Distil so rank a feline smell | X |
| As Grishkin in a drawing room | W |
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| And even the Abstract Entities | G |
| Circumambulate her charm | Y |
| But our lot crawls between dry ribs | Z |
| To keep our metaphysics warm | A2 |
T. S. Eliot
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