Testimonies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDE FGHIJ GKLMN OPKQR STUVS| Others at their porches | A |
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| I baited bears and prayed The Queen | B |
| Grew inky on Boethius Between | B |
| The angels and the animals we lived and died | C |
| The sun the King and my own being blazed as one | D |
| I spoke occasionally to God | E |
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| I circumcise my son and laud | F |
| The covenant The massacres go on | G |
| And now plunder expulsion Poisoned fountains drown | H |
| The Synagogue Blood stains the font | I |
| The staff breaks toward the desert in my hands | J |
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| I did not see the Grail Sir John | G |
| Lay dying at the bridge When barbers cut away | K |
| Those spongy growths from the poor soldiers gums | L |
| The whole camp echoed with our cries | M |
| I place the cauldron of God s wrath upon the coals | N |
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| I watch the world contract to this | O |
| Gray winter Grub Street where the scavengers | P |
| Drop in the cold The famine spreads more every day | K |
| God save the King the Army and the House of Lords | Q |
| The rags fall from my arms outside the coffee house | R |
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| I live The Elevated shudders to a stop | S |
| At Twenty Eighth and Third Among | T |
| The nuns and crippled Negroes we descend | U |
| The stairway to the street to red cheeked chromo Christ | V |
| Hung with the bloody calves heads in the butcher shop | S |
Weldon Kees
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