The Two Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIJH KKLMML NNOPPO QQRSSR TUVWU XXBAAB| You are the town and we are the clock | A |
| We are the guardians of the gate in the rock | A |
| The Two | B |
| On your left and on your right | C |
| In the day and in the night | C |
| We are watching you | B |
| - | |
| Wiser not to ask just what has occurred | D |
| To them who disobeyed our word | D |
| To those | E |
| We were the whirlpool we were the reef | F |
| We were the formal nightmare grief | F |
| And the unlucky rose | E |
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| Climb up the crane learn the sailor's words | G |
| When the ships from the islands laden with birds | G |
| Come in | H |
| Tell your stories of fishing and other men's wives | I |
| The expansive moments of constricted lives | J |
| In the lighted inn | H |
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| But do not imagine we do not know | K |
| Nor that what you hide with such care won't show | K |
| At a glance | L |
| Nothing is done nothing is said | M |
| But don't make the mistake of believing us dead | M |
| I shouldn't dance | L |
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| We're afraid in that case you'll have a fall | N |
| We've been watching you over the garden wall | N |
| For hours | O |
| The sky is darkening like a stain | P |
| Something is going to fall like rain | P |
| And it won't be flowers | O |
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| When the green field comes off like a lid | Q |
| Revealing what was much better hid | Q |
| Unpleasant | R |
| And look behind you without a sound | S |
| The woods have come up and are standing round | S |
| In deadly crescent | R |
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| The bolt is sliding in its groove | T |
| Outside the window is the black removers' van | U |
| And now with sudden swift emergence | V |
| Come the woman in dark glasses and humpbacked surgeons | W |
| And the scissors man | U |
| - | |
| This might happen any day | X |
| So be careful what you say | X |
| Or do | B |
| Be clean be tidy oil the lock | A |
| Trim the garden wind the clock | A |
| Remember the Two | B |
W. H. Auden
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