The Man On The Dump Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI JKLMNIOPQOR QQQSSQT AJQUQVW XQYZZZQQA2B2QCC2D2| Day creeps down The moon is creeping up | A |
| The sun is a corbeil of flowers the moon Blanche | B |
| Places there a bouquet Ho ho The dump is full | C |
| Of images Days pass like papers from a press | D |
| The bouquets come here in the papers So the sun | E |
| And so the moon both come and the janitor's poems | F |
| Of every day the wrapper on the can of pears | G |
| The cat in the paper bag the corset the box | H |
| From Esthonia the tiger chest for tea | I |
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| The freshness of night has been fresh a long time | J |
| The freshness of morning the blowing of day one says | K |
| That it puffs as Cornelius Nepos reads it puffs | L |
| More than less than or it puffs like this or that | M |
| The green smacks in the eye the dew in the green | N |
| Smacks like fresh water in a can like the sea | I |
| On a cocoanut how many men have copied dew | O |
| For buttons how many women have covered themselves | P |
| With dew dew dresses stones and chains of dew heads | Q |
| Of the floweriest flowers dewed with the dewiest dew | O |
| One grows to hate these things except on the dump | R |
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| Now in the time of spring azaleas trilliums | Q |
| Myrtle viburnums daffodils blue phlox | Q |
| Between that disgust and this between the things | Q |
| That are on the dump azaleas and so on | S |
| And those that will be azaleas and so on | S |
| One feels the purifying change One rejects | Q |
| The trash | T |
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| That's the moment when the moon creeps up | A |
| To the bubbling of bassoons That's the time | J |
| One looks at the elephant colorings of tires | Q |
| Everything is shed and the moon comes up as the moon | U |
| All its images are in the dump and you see | Q |
| As a man not like an image of a man | V |
| You see the moon rise in the empty sky | W |
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| One sits and beats an old tin can lard pail | X |
| One beats and beats for that which one believes | Q |
| That's what one wants to get near Could it after all | Y |
| Be merely oneself as superior as the ear | Z |
| To a crow's voice Did the nightingale torture the ear | Z |
| Pack the heart and scratch the mind And does the ear | Z |
| Solace itself in peevish birds Is it peace | Q |
| Is it a philosopher's honeymoon one finds | Q |
| On the dump Is it to sit among mattresses of the dead | A2 |
| Bottles pots shoes and grass and murmur aptest eve | B2 |
| Is it to hear the blatter of grackles and say | Q |
| Invisible priest is it to eject to pull | C |
| The day to pieces and cry stanza my stone | C2 |
| Where was it one first heard of the truth The the | D2 |
Wallace Stevens
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