No Possum, No Sop, No Taters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EF GC HI JK LM NM MK OP QC RR| He is not here the old sun | A |
| As absent as if we were asleep | B |
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| The field is frozen The leaves are dry | C |
| Bad is final in this light | D |
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| In this bleak air the broken stalks | E |
| Have arms without hands They have trunks | F |
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| Without legs or for that without heads | G |
| They have heads in which a captive cry | C |
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| Is merely the moving of a tongue | H |
| Snow sparkles like eyesight falling to earth | I |
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| Like seeing fallen brightly away | J |
| The leaves hop scraping on the ground | K |
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| It is deep January The sky is hard | L |
| The stalks are firmly rooted in ice | M |
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| It is in this solitude a syllable | N |
| Out of these gawky flitterings | M |
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| Intones its single emptiness | M |
| The savagest hollow of winter sound | K |
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| It is here in this bad that we reach | O |
| The last purity of the knowledge of good | P |
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| The crow looks rusty as he rises up | Q |
| Bright is the malice in his eye | C |
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| One joins him there for company | R |
| But at a distance in another tree | R |
Wallace Stevens
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