A Postcard From The Volcano Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF AGH IJK LMN OJI JPJ QRO| Children picking up our bones | A |
| Will never know that these were once | B |
| As quick as foxes on the hill | C |
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| And that in autumn when the grapes | D |
| Made sharp air sharper by their smell | E |
| These had a being breathing frost | F |
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| And least will guess that with our bones | A |
| We left much more left what still is | G |
| The look of things left what we felt | H |
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| At what we saw The spring clouds blow | I |
| Above the shuttered mansion house | J |
| Beyond our gate and the windy sky | K |
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| Cries out a literate despair | L |
| We knew for long the mansion's look | M |
| And what we said of it became | N |
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| A part of what it is Children | O |
| Still weaving budded aureoles | J |
| Will speak our speech and never know | I |
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| Will say of the mansion that it seems | J |
| As if he that lived there left behind | P |
| A spirit storming in blank walls | J |
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| A dirty house in a gutted world | Q |
| A tatter of shadows peaked to white | R |
| Smeared with the gold of the opulent sun | O |
Wallace Stevens
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