The Man On The Dump Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI JKLMNIOPQOR QQQSSQT AJQUQVW XQYZZZQQA2B2QCC2D2Day 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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