A Forgetful Number Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC D DDC DEF FG HII H JKL B| Once upon a time there was a number | A |
| Pure and round like the sun | B |
| But alone very much alone | C |
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| It began to reckon with itself | D |
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| It divided multiplied itself | D |
| It subtracted added itself | D |
| And remained always alone | C |
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| It stopped reckoning with itself | D |
| And shut itself up in its round | E |
| And sunny purity | F |
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| Outside were left the fiery | F |
| Traces of its reckoning | G |
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| They began to chase each other through the dark | H |
| To divide when they should have multiplied themselves | I |
| To subtract when they should have added themselves | I |
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| That's what happens in the dark | H |
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| And there was no one to ask it | J |
| To stop the traces | K |
| And to rub them out | L |
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| Trans Anne Pennington | B |
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