A Musician's Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FDGHI JKLMN OPQRE STDUV| Between the visits to the shock ward | A |
| The doctors used to let you play | B |
| On the old upright Baldwin | C |
| Donated by a former patient | D |
| Who is said to be quite stable now | E |
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| And all day long you played Chopin | F |
| Badly and hauntingly when you weren't | D |
| Screaming on the porch that looked | G |
| Like an enormous birdcage Or sat | H |
| In your room and stared out at the sky | I |
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| You never looked at me at all | J |
| I used to walk down to where the bus stopped | K |
| Over the hill where the eucalyptus trees | L |
| Moved in the fog and stared down | M |
| At the lights coming on in the white rooms | N |
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| And always when I came back to my sister's | O |
| I used to get out the records you made | P |
| The year before all your terrible trouble | Q |
| The records the critics praised and nobody bought | R |
| That are almost worn out now | E |
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| Now sometimes I wake in the night | S |
| And hear the sound of dead leaves | T |
| against the shutters And then a distant | D |
| Music starts a music out of an abyss | U |
| And it is dawn before I sleep again | V |
Weldon Kees
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