The Upstairs Room Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMF| It must have been in March the rug wore through | A |
| Now the day passes and I stare | B |
| At warped pine boards my father's father nailed | C |
| At the twisted grain Exposed where emptiness allows | D |
| Are the wormholes of eighty years four generations' shoes | E |
| Stumble and scrape and fall | F |
| To the floor my father stained | G |
| The new blood streaming from his head The drift | H |
| Of autumn fires and a century's cigars that gun's | I |
| Magnanimous and brutal smoke endure | J |
| In March the rug was ragged as the past The thread | K |
| rots like the lives we fasten on Now it is August | L |
| And the floor is blank worn smooth | M |
| And for my life imperishable | F |
Weldon Kees
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